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Christopher drifted in darkness only a moment before the pain came again. This time however, it came from that seed left buried in the empty place inside him and it swept through him like a raging fire. It wasn't purifying this time, it was liberating and it stoked his rage. The pain was intense, but it was more than physical.
He remembered his mother and father again and his kid sister. The pain awakened the sadness and memories he had been trying to bury for the last week.
The pain showed him what he had hoped never to see again. That all shreds of his former life were gone. Courtney’s betrayal, his entire family r***d and murdered without him even being able to say goodbye, all of this stoked the fire inside him. He never considered that it was corrupting him, changing him,
