Starglow Basin secret tunnel

Jaws grasped his neck again. For a moment, he embraced oblivion, hallucinated the coldness that etched at his limbs and when he felt himself lifted from the ground, he wondered if it had finally happened, his soul untethered from the battered husk he'd become.

But death did not come. Not quickly, at least, in blind fear he thrashed and fought with all he had left.

He wasn't brave. He wasn't strong. But he wouldn't die the same meek boy he'd been when they took him.