Finding yourself in utter darkness, when both the sense of direction and the sight of your friends are lost —

Finding yourself in utter darkness, when both the sense of direction and the sight of your friends are lost — it does things to one's mind. Especially when the darkness is almost living, breathing, hungry... when it tries to swallow you, to worm its way into your eyes, to blind you FOREVER! ...at least that's how your true servant felt, though to all accounts, she was perhaps the only one among the band who did not surrender to panic, maintaining her steel-eyed composure.