Digging Out Toward the Subterranean to Reach the Tunnel Leading to the Light

What you don't know about the transdimensional properties of the komodo dragon can kill you in more than one place. They can scent your wound through time, through space, sporling out before them like a mist that curls and beckons. While you, you're more like a rabbit with a pocketwatch who's been stuffed with sawdust, and it's falling out of you in chunks, and you're feeling more and more like part of the scenery. Everything's receding. Except the komodo. The komodo's getting closer and...