It felt like she was swallowed whole by the darkness. Dahlia felt her battered body suddenly diving into a strange, colorless and odorless ocean, and all of the pain left her body as if it had just been nothing but a faint breeze on her skin. There was just a cold sensation, like floating in a body of tasteless ocean, with no gravity and no sound. For a bit, she felt as if the shadows were swallowing her body. Not taking big bites but like insects crawling on every inch of her skin, peeling it away until she felt absolutely nothing, all layers removed. Her heart, her core was finally exposed, revealed to the world. Like the sudden spark in the heart of a dying fire in a chimney, as if she was covered in ashes, but warming up hotter than ever before under the coal... She felt like she was t
