Chapter 52
First a finger, then my hand. Wedged on my belly, it suddenly felt hot. I dragged it up to my throat. My breathing was calm, my pulse normal although a little rapid. My eyes narrowed several times and then opened. I discovered absolute blackness, nothingness. A chill. I was lying on a hard floor. My arm wanted to lift, but the effort was too hard. I could hardly move. I tried again, and this time my knuckles banged hard against stone. A tomb?! My breathing quickened, taking with it more oxygen every second. I had to calm down, but panic took hold of me. The long hours that followed the macabre discovery of my burial were torture. I was suffocating but I was not dying, madness was almost overtaking me when I began to recover some strength. The more the minutes went by, the more my body rega
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