tightly as sharp, guttural coughs wracked her body, scraping her throat raw. She twisted and arched on the ground, her muscles seizing in a grim ballet of suffering, as if her very flesh were trying to escape the bones that held it.

As the fabric of her reality frayed, shadows gathered and swirled into an impenetrable darkness that towered over her, vast and inexorable. A relentless abyss sliced through her pain-wracked consciousness, dimming the world to a mere whisper as it slipped from her weakening grasp. Her vision darkened, and the last threads of awareness unraveled, plunging her into the silent depths of an overwhelming void.

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