A Dangerous Man
“He heaved himself halfway up, bracing himself on his forearms. For a moment he knelt, head bowed, lungs working like bellows. He sank back on his haunches, wrapping his arms tightly around himself.He should have expected this. He’d learned the hard lesson long ago; whatever peace he counterfeited was subject to violation. For eleven years he’d struggled to obliterate the bitter trophies he’d garnered in long-dead wars.Someday he would, he resolved grimly. In the meantime he would not succumb to... these nameless horrors. He would purge this rank cowardliness from his soul.He stumbled to his feet, looking blindly around the dark room, searching for something to focus on, something he could use to regain the rudiments of self-possession.“Control yourself, you flinching coward,” he muttered, half in self-condemnation, half in pleading. More than simple humiliation striped his soul. Someday he feared he would succumb to his panic and scream. And once he began screaming, he would never stop.He stared at the gray patch of illumination on the far wall, forcing himself to mentally measure the window’s frame, to give a name to the frost in the corner of the glass panes.MoreLess
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