The Cheshire Cat Smile

"What did you feel?" He asked. She paused, not sure how to answer. What DID she feel?
"...Fear. I felt a fear like I'd never felt before, Adam. I felt like that shadow wanted to swallow me. Bury me away somewhere and never let me out. Lock me somewhere horrible where no one would ever find me. I felt trapped, like a animal feels right before its killed,when it knows it's going to die. I felt hopeless and small. I felt...I felt everything a child feels in their first, true, nightmare..."