Breathe. Breathe.

No. Don't breathe. Don't breathe because they'll hear you. Not a sound now.

Let your muscles curl, tense, wind around bone, pull you in to the tightest of balls. Be like marble. Like stone. An impenetrable castle. A fortress.

Don't breathe. Don't make a sound. Be still as the dead.

They're coming.

Oh god, they're coming.