A light in the darkness

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Adrian's POV

I woke up to suffocating darkness; I was lying on a cold, hard surface, my body still aching from the silver sword's burn. My mind was foggy; I couldn't think straight, but I could sense that something had changed. The physical pain was so much unbearable, but the quietness was so much unsettling it was worse.

Where was I? I was no longer in the room with Zane, everything felt so wrong. I tried to stand up, but I couldn't; the pain and the burn were so great that It was making me feel dizzy.

Panic set in when I tried to move again and my limbs seemed to be frozen. It seemed not to be physically bound but mentally paralysed as if Zane's dark magic was tightening its grip, consuming the whole of me. My thoughts became sluggish invaded by something cold, ominous and sinister.

I tried to fight back, but every attempt I made to fight back was fruitless. All my attempts were met with suffocating pressure. Zane was trying to break me from the inside