A switch had just flipped within me.
A feeling that I never knew existed began to spread like wildfire throughout my entity as its light swallowed up everything in its path.
But that's just the thing.
It wasn't a beam of warmth, but rather much darker than that. A shadow, perhaps, sucking the color out of everything that was once so bright, burying my optimistic perspective beneath a heap of negativity; unfamiliar territory to cross into.
As much as I fought to fully extinguish the raging flames that were leaving bits of the old me behind in charred crisps, it was stronger. I just built up a wall to contain it, but that which I had left was a very minimal portion of my being.
There were two voices in my head now, one a whisper and one a shout, but they were both mine.
I was living a double life from within.
This was the new me.