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_A fearsome thing is a thing you're afraid of -- and it has nothing whatever to do with whether others are afraid, nor with whether it is in fact dangerous. It's your view of the matter that counts! _
There was a dizzy, sickening whirl of mental blackness -- not true blackness, but a mind-enveloping darkness that was filled with the multi-colored little sparks of thoughts and memories that scattered through the darkness like tiny glowing mice, fleeing from something unknown, fleeing outwards and away toward a somewhere that was equally unknown; scurrying, moving, changing -- each half recognizable as it passed, but leaving only a vague impression behind.