He put his hand over my mouth and pinched my nose. What happened next is difficult to put into words. Think of a sea mist that’s entirely black. Now picture that black mist blooming inside you. Now consider how it would feel to change places with a shadow. Then visualise your heart circling a drain. Now imagine you’re a plant at the moment it’s pulled up by the roots. Following that, envision being a dawn in reverse and your lungs being erased atom by atom while your head is lowered into a pit of mud. Now conjure up an immense all-consuming silence. It is difficult to put into words, but you
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