Almost all of us have experienced it at some point or another. That brief sense uncertainty. You were sure the lights just went out, but it was so swift your mind barely registered it. Yet you cant shake the feeling. Perhaps you just blinked, and noticed it more than usual. Maybe the power surged.

I can tell that these assumptions are completely wrong. Holding onto them could result in the most dire of punishments. These flickers are preludes to tragedy. Terrors unspoken are trying to break through the wall that separates you, the prey, from their hungry jaws. The binds that restrain them will not hold forever. Each flicker is a crack in the wall.

Eventually, that quick flicker will no longer be a sputter of light. You will be permanently cased in the darkness. Waste no breathes screaming, no energy running. The final chime has rang.

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