Instant or delayed?

User-Controlled 003v [pen-to-paper] <idea> the Slight Pivot [reddit]

... No matter what, we're almost at the finishing line...

Are you sure you want to do that? The narrator questions the decision the adventurer is making, but it's too late to turn around now... As their eyes met with each other, time seems to stop literally, with the human unable to avert their gaze from the now rigid raven. Not even a blink could be mustered, just a deeper, longer look into the abyss of the black, soulles eyes. From its depth, they are forced to see with their straining eyes a green shine starts to surface slowly but surely until it envelop all the surfaces of both eyes. The emerald colours start to pierce the human's eyes with its glow that's going brighter by the second, so to speak. The green glare that's affecting their irises as well as the inability to close their eyelids force the rather comatose adventurer to respond only by tearing up, but then they start to hear a sound in their head in conjuction with the unmistakable pulse in front of them. Oh no, not again! Of course, just your luck! Well, I guess you know what follows next; do you submit or do you fight back? Yes or no? You do not have any other options now... Decide now. Tick. Tock.

Succumb or strain? Decisions, decisions. In the end, they decided to...?

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