Simone’s point of view I jerk awake, the air thick and metallic, heavy with the taste of blood and shadow. The chamber surrounds me in a dim green glow, runes along the walls pulsing like a heartbeat. My restraints bite into my wrists and ankles, but I barely feel them—the darkness inside me thrums, alive, hungry, restless. “Let me out!” I roar, twisting violently. Black tendrils lash at the walls and floor, writhing like snakes. “I don’t belong here! I am not yours!” “You are here to survive,” a calm, omnipresent voice whispers. The words echo, layered with the magic of the chamber, binding and anchoring me. “The darkness cannot take you if you face it, Simone. Only you can control it.” I snarl, lunging, and the shadows flare, forming twisted, semi-human shapes that mimic me—my face contorted, screaming, eyes glowing red. They move with me, mocking, taunting, showing me every version of myself I’ve tried to bury. “You abandoned me!” a faceless shadow hisses. “He killed hi
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