Lights in the distance. Shore, slowing approaching across the gentle waves. Violently, I began to shake with a deep and unnamed terror. His hand closed on my shoulder.
"Breathe," he murmered. The first word between us. He squared his focus on me and inhaled deeply.
I took a stuttering breath. Then another. Then a smooth one.
The man was whispering something. A prayer?
Tension melted from my body. I gazed again over the water, and the distant clamor of a market preparing for dawn drifted to my ears. For a moment, the blackness fluttered about me, guiding, beckoning.
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