Suddenly, his lantern went out. Not because the oil ran dry, but because the flame simply decided to stop burning. In that absolute, crushing blackness, a voice spoke—not from the air, but from the very center of his own mind.
The locals—if you could call the shadows in the periphery "locals"—spoke of the , a stretch of tundra where the stars seemed to sit lower in the sky, heavy and suffocating. They said the dark wasn't just an absence of light; it was a physical weight, a thick velvet that clung to your skin and whispered in a language made of wind and cracking ice. DЕ‚ugie.ciemne.opowieЕ›ci.z.dalekiego.terytorium-...
"You brought so much regret with you, traveler," the voice rasped, sounding like dry leaves skittering over stone. "It's heavy. Why not leave it here? The Territory has plenty of room for more ghosts." Suddenly, his lantern went out