Everard closed his eyes tightly and shook his head to try and shake off that feeling overwhelming feeling. However, the desire that sprouted from the deepest corner of his soul couldn’t be shaken off that easily.
‘What is this feeling?’ he asked himself breathlessly. He could hear his own breath so loudly that it drowned everything else, even his heartbeat that was drumming inside his chest. ‘Why do I feel like I am going to be swallowed whole?’
Everard gulped hard a few times in an attempt to moisten his parched throat. But that only hurt his throat further and he ended up gasping for breath.
As he had thought, that feeling slowly started to take over all his senses. He started to feel light-headed, his vision started to get blurry, and his whole body started to sweat profoundly.
For a second, he thought that he was going back to that dark place, wherever it was.
