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Oh, God, it hurts. There was blood on my fingertips because of how far I had driven them into my

ears. I had shoved them so deep that my ear canals ached, and every now and then a pulsing

thread of pain would shoot across my temple like a nail being driven through the bone.

She drove the tent peg through his temple. It was another voice intruding on my pained thoughts.

It was not my own, although it sounded like me. It filled my skull with the pressure

of a steadily inflating balloon, growing bigger and bigger until there was no room for anything else.

From the pain in my ears, I was not certain I could hear properly anymore.

I certainly could not hear my own fists pounding against the steel door.

I could only feel the sharp needles of pain in my fingernails peeling back whenever I tried to tear

the hinges free. The voices were coming from inside of me. I had no other way of explaining it.

It was like having lungs full of froth, and I could barely breathe. Each voice

bubbled up my throat and popped behind my teeth. They were unintelligible words and languages

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