The corruption spread like spilled ink across parchment, seeping through the cracks in Reed's fractured consciousness with predatory purpose. What had begun as a whisper in one wounded fragment now echoed through multiple aspects of his scattered awareness, each infected piece carrying the Dark's poison deeper into his psyche.
Every breath is agony, the corrupted fragment whispered to its neighbors. Every heartbeat a choice to perpetuate suffering. Watch—see how consciousness breeds only pain.