{"sf1_id":962572,"sf2_id":"k1VAWgYn","title":"Dance","author":"Ranyaws","words":141,"posted_at":"2016-02-07T00:56:00.000Z","tags":["Fear","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/962572-dance","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/k1VAWgYn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/d6/58/d658f294-68ce-42a5-b067-9c70158a8a55","description":"","content":"Unknown darkness, cold and harsh, beating heart\n\nskin crawling. The air carries the presence of a huntress.\n\nMind screaming -get up and run- so you do.\n\nYou can feel, she is onto you.\n\nTracking your steps, catching your scent.\n\nBolting after you.\n\nSkilled, as she is the best.\n\nShe corners you.\n\nYou knew you couldn't evade her for long.\n\n\"Yet you often try in panic\", she whispers\n\nAs you face Fear, she offers you a monstrous hand.\n\n\"Heed my lead as you dance with me.\n\nNew steps and hurdles keep me company.\n\nBut if you trip, I won't let you fall.\"\n\nOne deep breath - you know what's coming - you take it.\n\n\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\n\nThis was (partly) inspired by Child of the Sands.\n\nThis is my view on what fear should be to us, and what we should see in it.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}