• You think they have you. Right? Well think again. There is something crawling through the shadow who calls out to the thing that lurks in the depths of your mind. The wailing pierces right through you like a hot poker in an eye. At first, you don’t feel it. No, you couldn’t possibly feel it. There is no way you would ever have that much control over your waking conscious. No. At first, you can only feel a tingling in your mind; a buzzing. Each second that trickles by like the sand in a bottle you feel the pressure seizing your guts and each moment presses you more and more into that corner. Yes, it’s that corner. It’s the corner that everyone shrinks away from. You can feel it looming over your head and it’s at your back, daggered teeth and sharpened claws poised over your neck. As that darkness starts to reach out to you, you slowly feel it engulfing you and seizing your movements, your thoughts. You are so frightened, so alone in that fear of yours you want to start thrashing and run from it. Escape. It’s all that’s on your mind. To run forward to those you run from is unacceptable, but that would mean to embrace the entity that is methodically enveloping you. Panic swells in you and you can feel it clenching your lungs together and speeding your heart with dread. Do you give into the shadow’s calling? To submit? To go to it? Do you fall to your knees before it? ….Do you give it the power to take you?

    You bite your lip, your eyes shift, every sense is heightened, and there is nothing you do not anticipate. This feeling of fire searing your every limb like phoenix oil and is set aflame; rushing through you. Each movement is branded into your memory and your panting rings in your ears. Each heartbeat is a base drumming against your body. Another trickle of sweat rolls down your back. Do you give in? Another step backwards. Once again the sinister whispers caress your senses and promises escape, freedom….power. Another step into that corner. At the edge of your sight you see it, there it is. It is forever closing in on you. Trapping you. Caging you to the fate that bites into your mind. What do you do? Whispers, whispers, whispers. They’re trilling in your mind now, those malevolent sounds enticing you. All you have to do is give in. It is right there for you to leap to. All you have to do is let it take you. Another step. Times is almost out. All the sand is almost as the bottom. Do you submit? Do you give in? That power, the wicked sound is still in reach. It’s now or never. Do you take it? Do you reach out your arms? Another heart beat. Another step backwards. The shadows of your future are closing their hands on you. Another breath. Your last? Come on, tense you’re muscles. Close your eyes. Submit.

    As you invite the shadow into your mind, the darkness snarls and leaps onward into you, lodging its claws into you. You take a step foreword. Then, you feel your hand close in around his throat and crush the soft cartilage of his windpipe. A gurgle fills your ears, but you barely hear it for you only can hear the blood pumping in your ears, the power in your body. The cracking of bone shoots out across the sweat slicked air and you feel the body go limp in your hand. The body drops to the ground with a sickening, repulsive thud. And, like a nightmare replaying in your waking life, you hear the chuckle of that dark shadow that had been lurking in the corner of your head.