Axel watched everything play from start to finish, unable to even look away. No, he tried to, but it felt almost as if his neck was frozen stiff, unable to even tilt to the side.
Each passing second, each moan that echoed, he could feel something within him breaking. Something within him "dying."
After the playback ended, he just stood there, as if petrified.
Unable to take a step forward, or back.
As he stood there, floating in the emptiness, standing on top of nothing but a single, small floating piece of land... something began to change.
Darkness began to squirm from below. The same darkness that had swallowed the replica of his home earlier. It was slowly growing, trying to consume everything within its path. And, of course, that included Axel too.
After a few moments, the darkness was already at his feet, slowly climbing up his pants, swallowing his shoes into squirming, pitch-black shadow. Slowly crawling up his leg, and going even higher.
"..."
Axel didn't move.
