Echoes of Betrayal

The void surrounding him carried an unnatural weight, crushing down on his lungs like living soil.

"Sybil…"

The syllables spilled from his mouth involuntarily. He stood suspended in a pitch-black expanse. This was not the ordinary cover of night, nor the familiar shadows he bent to his will. This space breathed. It possessed a suffocating gravity, pushing against his sternum until every intake