There was no impact.One second, ink was clawing up past my mouth, pressing against my nose, my eyes.The next, every sense I had just… let go.No up.No down.No hot, no cold.Nobody.For a moment that could have been a second or an hour, I floated in nothing.Then the nothing filled in.Not with walls or sky.With lines.Words streamed past me in every direction—black on white, white on black, sometimes red or gray—whole sentences twisting around half‑phrases, punctuation raining like sparks.“—she stood at the bus stop and—” “—no one believed her when she said—” “—if you’d just tried harder, maybe he wouldn’t have—”They weren’t on pages anymore.They were free‑floating, illuminated in the dark, curling and straightening as if they had weight.The ink pressed against my ears like thick velvet, muffling everything except the hiss of sentences sliding past. They tangled in my hair, cold against my skin, brushing like wet cobwebs. The air—if there was air—smelled faintly of charre
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