KAI
Pain seared through my limbs, each breath a labor as I lay confined in the infirmary. Machines beeped and hissed around me, blood bags swayed gently from their hooks, and an IV snaked into my arm, a constant reminder of my vulnerability. Oxygen whispered into my nostrils, a lifeline that seemed as fragile as spider silk. The stark white walls and the antiseptic smell of the room faded as a murky fog settled over my consciousness, dragging me down into a feverish dream—a dark magic reimagining of a fairy tale gone wrong.
The atmosphere was thick with an eerie gloom that draped over the scene like a suffocating blanket. Shadows danced along the walls, elongating and twisting into grotesque shapes that could've sprung from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe himself. A haunting melody wove thro
