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It terrified It degraded I was trapped

My nose blocked worse

My head pounded

My ears rang

My fear consumed me

I

Lost

Control

I screao

I no longer saw, heard, or paid attention

My cries echoed loudly in hed and la; I inhaled and exhaled around the silver tongue press, recycling my screams in a rush of poisoned air

I suffocated

I panicked

I spiralled into craziness

My world reduced to blackness Hawksridge Hall, with its sweeping porticos and acres of land, condensed into one tiny silver ain and again

I lost everything thatto die

Each breath orse than the one before I fell to ullet

Do not throw up

If I did, I’d drown There was no way out, no mouth piece Only two tiny nose holes that didn’t provide enough oxygen

I stool came back

This was just as bad Just as heinous

Claustrophobia gathered thicker, heavier, chewing holes in my soul

I can’t stand it

"Let me out!" The words were clear in arbled and broken

The faint sounds of laughter overrode the hiss and gallop of