Mock Reach

If you were alone in a room, if the sounds all around you deepened and slowed, the light dimmed and color lost its richness, if the second hand on the clock across the room took two seconds to tick, then five... If you couldn't move, couldn't breathe, could do nothing but observe as time got slower, lights got darker, sounds got deeper... Were you dying? Were you losing your grip on reality? If you heard a voice...