Darkness surrounded him, so deep and thick that he could feel it play on his skin like heavy breathing. He turned, and for an instant he saw the door and through it he saw Darius Faulkner frowning as if he couldn't see him in the darkness.
Severin walked towards the light. He couldn't help it, he didn't know darkness could be that dark.
But the door closed and something yanked him away.
His scream was lost in the silent dark. He lost his sense of direction as everything blurred.
Suddenly he began to see shapes in the darkness, at first it was almost vague, lines and things that seemed too far for his eyes to catch.
But then he saw something, a shape that was coiled around, heavy head resting on its great paws, scales that seemed to be made of inky darkness. Horns that seemed to be impossibly long.
And then there were the chains, bright silver that drew the eyes, chains that wrapped around its limbs.
Then the thing opened its eyes and stared right at him.
