Instantly, the scene around me changed and I found myself back in time, all the way to the start.
I felt a sharp, searing pain that ripped through my left eye, like a relentless blade slicing through flesh. The world around me blurred and twisted into a maelstrom of agony and confusion. I reached instinctively for my face, fingers trembling as they made contact with warm, sticky wetness.
With a gasp, I that my left eye, once a window to the world, now throbbed with an intensity that seemed to consume my entire being. I staggered backward, my vision swimming as tears mingled with the blood that streamed down my cheek.
Each heartbeat echoed in my skull like a drumbeat of despair, a cruel reminder of the irreversible damage that had been done.
As I stumbled blindly forward, the world seemed to tilt and spin, disorienting me further. Shadows danced at the edges of my vision, mocking me with their sinister whispers of darkness and despair.