The darkness swallowed everything.For a moment, Eliana existed in pure nothing—no floor beneath her feet, no walls, no screaming creature, no crying mother. Just the suffocating black and the echo of that final, terrible beep burning through her skull."No," she breathed into the void. "No, no, no—"She started running. She didn't know where, didn't care. Her legs pumped against an invisible surface, her hands clawed at empty air. "Take me back! Let me see her!"No one answered.Somewhere in the dark, she could hear her own heartbeat—or maybe it was the phantom memory of the hospital monitor, slowing, fading, stopping. She couldn't tell anymore. The boundary between her body and this place had dissolved completely, and she was dissolving with it."Please," she whispered. Tears burned her eyes, then froze against her skin. "Please, I can't leave her like that. I can't—"A hand caught her wrist.She whirled, expecting the creature, expecting those cracked porcelain fingers and that too
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