The last thing Elias heard before the darkness took him was a final, stuttering drum fill that dissolved into the sound of a distant, synthesized ocean. The chaos hadn't stopped; he had simply learned to sleep inside of it.
The static in Elias’s room wasn’t noise; it was a blanket. chill_breakcore_songs_to_fall_asleep_listening_to
: A melodic vocal sample, pitched up and stretched until it sounded like a ghost humming, floated through the room. The last thing Elias heard before the darkness