Chapter 9 Flavus in Arcade I entered its dominions. A new reality where time was non existent, where all events were laying on the same flat plane. A stagnant dimension: no before, no after, just a now, fluid and uncomplicated. Watch, react, perceive. Only images, followed by instructions mindlessly carried out by the body. No vertigo, hesitation, anxiety. If I could have used my analysing consciousness, I would have found the situation blissful, but I could not, and so I advanced into the land of dread like a sparrow looking for crumbs. No thoughts, I kept them protected under the threshold of my awareness. I had confined my essence in that remote place to prevent any possible contamination, because I knew that its mind could still violate my own. But I was determined not to offer han

