My heart pounded in my chest, my stomach swirling as the fear took root, and I looked up at his face, his eyes through the little holes in the mask barely visible in the darkness. I stopped, suddenly lost in those voids for a moment. He took another step, and a jolt hit my heart, my whole body warming. Still, I didn’t move. I couldn’t. Another step. He was almost at me. Why wasn’t I moving? My pulse raced more by the second, and the feeling almost made me smile because I kind of liked it. Something built inside me, stacking one brick on top of another until I was a wall, and every second more
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