Extraction or Inception (DEAD MIND, RED MIND 1)

2022 | Ballpoint Pen Drawing on 300gsm Watercolor Paper

I saw the shadow first, this physical form of night reaching out to me and I felt my heart miss a beat as my stomach dropped uneasily. This was not anything I had ever experienced, why couldn't I move away from it? What manner of being is this? Claws extending infinitely while seemingly hovering in the air, attached to nothing. Am I going mad? The pain in my head tells me otherwise as I feel her sinking into the depths of my mind. Even now, I can't tell if she took something from my mind or put something in there. I call her The Hand of Living Darkness and I dread the day she returns.

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