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What does the bolded には mean in the following sentence?

貫くような衝撃が顎から脳天を突き抜け、次第に目の前が真っ白になってゆく感覚に襲われる中、耳には銀髪の外国人の興奮した声が入ってきていた。

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  • Possible duplicate of [Rules for には usage](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/39304/rules-for-%e3%81%ab%e3%81%af-usage) – SLM Oct 24 '18 at 08:27

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It's a particle に (marking a direction/destination) followed by a topic/contrast marker は. は is used because there is a weak contrast between what's happening to his 目の前 and what's happening to his 耳.

耳には銀髪の外国人の興奮した声が入ってきていた。
(literally) into my ears, an excited voice of a foreigner with silver hair was coming.

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