As I opened the pages, a blinding flash emerged from the book, turning it into tiny particles that entered my body, enveloping everything around it in a glow so intense that I felt as if time itself had stopped. A deep sound, like the rumble of distant thunder, echoed in my ears, and the atmosphere vibrated with a disturbing force.
In an instant, an endless number of images, voices and sensations flooded me, as if the history of an unknown world wanted to pass through me. I could see ancient battles, hear the screams of warriors fighting bloodied in distant fields, the martyrdom of the people being oppressed by their rulers. Everything was visible, I even felt how something inside me was slowly transforming, a transcendental change that I could not fully understand, but that seemed inevitable. An invisible force, like a shapeless wind, pushed me back, as if all the energy contained in the book was trying to merge with my soul.
