I know exactly how you feel, Mela. :)
It’s all playing with my head,
This part ... ambiguous... in a good way. Is there really some entity inhabiting the skull, or is this all in her mind? Is Mela crazy? A seed well planted in this chapter. I love it!
simply taking it all in. Mela wasn’t sure if it was listening anymore or if it had gone dormant, but she’d started this story and she was going to finish it.
That is an amazing visual... It shows exactly what's happening and yet at the same time leaves descriptive gaps in just the right places for me to imagine it in my own way. To see that, what does that LOOK like? Great writing!
She could see the blue eyes creeping out from the dark sockets once again