Darkness.Not the absence of light, but something deeper, thicker—a suffocating void that pressed against my consciousness like a physical weight. The witch's curse held me suspended in this terrible place between waking and sleep, aware but unable to move, unable to open my eyes, unable to do anything but *exist* in this prison of paralyzed flesh.I could hear everything.The scrape of boots against stone. The rhythmic sound of something being dragged—my body, I realized with distant horror. Hands gripped my arms, pulling me forward, and I felt every jarring bump and jostle but couldn't respond, couldn't even whimper.Down. We were going down. Deeper into the facility, deeper into whatever hell Kelly had prepared.The air changed as we descended. It grew colder, heavier, thick with a stench that made my trapped consciousness recoil. Old blood, yes—I could smell that, the metallic tang of death soaked into stone over years, maybe decades. But there was something else underneath it, so
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