He peered past the darkness within his eyelids, intense in his search, determined to find. When the hands of his fears would dare to reach for his spine, he'd be ready to turn around and bite them off. They wouldn't hold him captive; they wouldn't rend his mind. He felt himself fall, or perhaps rise - he couldn't tell. He breathed out; he looked back; he saw how far away he was from home, and the thought made him shiver.

"Breathe in".