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Chapter Two: Whispers in the dark

Jervis John awoke with a violent start, his chest heaving. The black silk sheets damp with sweat. His body convulsed as though he had been drowning in some unseen tide, but the scream bubbling at the back of his throat never escaped. He sat up abruptly, his hands clawing at his face, dragging against clammy skin as if trying to scrub away something unseen.

For a moment, the room felt impossibly quiet. Jervis stared into the suffocating darkness, his pupils wide, his heart pounding so hard he thought it might bruise his ribs. He could remember nothing; no dream, no vision, no thread of narrative to explain his terror. His waking mind was a blank slate, eerily calm, devoid of the inner monologue that plagued most people. And yet, he knew the truth in…