C184 Hospital terrorism 3

When your fear reaches a peak, you suddenly find yourself less frightened.

This symptom was later summed up simply by me as saying, "If you die early, you die late. If you die hard, you die the same way. It's better to be bold than to die like that."

To put it bluntly, he was courting death.

After a few minutes, my legs stopped shaking and I reached out to pat my stiff face