RE: Monarch - Chapter 241: Fracture XLVI

... swam, their aperture widening and tightening with seemingly no pattern. Pushing through it all felt like forcing my way through a physical barrier, sometimes requiring such effort that my vision darkened, unconsciousness little more than a single misstep away.

Nightmares lurked at every turn and ambush point. Distant voices of loved ones wailed out in agony, the cacophony overlapping, offset and dissonant, wheezing like a lung riddled with holes.

Mutilated hands reached from the ...