Morca's eyes suddenly snap opened...
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Immediately upon waking, fragments of memory–like broken pieces of glass–flashed in his mind. Some parts were blurry, others shrouded in darkness, impossible to comprehend. The moment he tried to recall them, a sharp pain assaulted his brain, as if tiny needles were piercing into his skull.
"Did I just have a nightmare… or what was that?" he muttered, his breath still unstable. He remembered that after he fainted, he found himself in a mysterious, dark place–something had happened there, something he couldn't quite grasp or name...