EVANS
The cold was the first thing I noticed.
It crept under my skin, seeped into my bones, and wrapped itself around me. My breath fogged in the freezing air, and each exhale echoed faintly around me. The darkness was everywhere—thick, oppressive, and impenetrable.
I couldn’t see my hands, even when I raised them in front of my face. My boots scuffed against the unseen ground, a sound that barely broke the eerie silence.
Where was I?
I turned in slow circles, my heart pounding steadily. This place—it felt like a void, an empty expanse that stretched infinitely in all directions. Yet it wasn’t empty. There was something in the shadows.
“Hello?” I called, my voice trembling.
My voice vanished into the void, swallowed whole by the silence. My pulse quickened as unease turned into fu
