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disappearing while the glittering gold of the sun disappeared as the line of darkness came closer and closer.
    I looked to Cohen in confusion as to why everything had gone dark, but he wasn’t looking at me. His eyes were focused up in silent horror at something I couldn’t see, something above the house where I knew the sun to be.
    Where the sun should be.
    Something was wrong. I could see it reflected in the open-mouthed horror that had covered Cohen’s face. My heart beat wildly in encroaching fear as I twisted myself against the window, pressing my face against the glass in my desperation to see what had happened.
    I pressed my cheek against the window to look up, I didn’t see the sun; I could barely see the sky. My shaking hand flew to my mouth as I watched blackness, darker than ink, cover the wide expanse of blue above us. It spread over the bright sky like a thousand spiders with their angular legs cutting into the blue, wiping it from existence.
    The legs crawled through the brightness of day, cutting into it with jagged motions that crawled over my skin, sending ice over my spine. The black grew and spread, the jagged legs taking away the brightness of the world, leaving us in the dim light of a moonless night; the world cast in shadows of blue and grey.
    I couldn’t take my eyes from the horror of the world outside. My mouth opened in silent terror; any thought of screaming had been immediately drowned from the fear and confusion that circled through me.
    I watched it, trying to figure out what was going on. Nothing that I was seeing made sense, nothing was right. I froze, fighting a need to run toward it; to hide, to scream, to fight the faceless villain that I was sure had caused this nightmare. It wouldn’t help and so I simply stared at it, wanting to find an explanation, but I already knew that I wouldn’t find one.
    In only a matter of moments, the sky was gone. A moving wave of black covering the world above us as the pulsing black mass surrounded us in an orb of silence.
    Silence.
    The black had sucked the birds from the sky and taken the wind from the trees. In the stillness of my room, the absence of sound was only intensified. I stared out as the light continued to fade, leaving us in the darkness of a cloudy night. The houses looked like haunted trees across the motionless world. My eyes adjusted quickly, bringing the world around me into focus until only the shapes in the distance faded into the darkness.
    I kept my face pressed against the glass as the silence washed over me, as my pulse beat loud and heavy in my ears. I waited for the blue to return; waited to wake up from whatever nightmare I was trapped in. It was the only explanation I could think of, the only thing I could grasp onto. I didn’t wake up though, and I knew, in the back of my mind, that all of this was real.
    I watched the black, unable to look away, or to even move, before the silence was cut apart by the sound that would come to haunt my world.
    A high pitched shriek rang through the silence, the sound a grinding buzz in my ears as I gasped in fear at its sudden arrival. I covered my ears in a panic, desperate to get the awful noise out of my head as I curled into a ball on my desk, my head pressing into my knees. I pushed hard against my ears, but the sound didn’t leave. It only grew until it vibrated inside of me, moving through my bones as it congregated inside my skull.
    Everything rattled inside of me as the vibration continued, the shriek growing right beside it. It grew until it became a pain, a rippling heat that covered my bones and took away my desire to move and my ability to focus beyond the noise that seemed to be coming from inside of me. My body ached as the sound rattled through me, my mouth clenching as I cried, as I tried to cope with the pain.
    I stayed curled in the ball; my body aching and writhing as I tried to manage and to move beyond it. I couldn’t. I stayed still, clawing at the sound