A Breath in the Dark

Silence... until now. I felt the slow chill creep along my tattered sleeves. Can you hear it? That faint rustle when I tilted my head sideways. Nothing stirred around me in the red-tinted gloom, save for my own deliberate breath. I leaned slightly forward, testing the dark, and brushed the fraying hem of my robe against the rough edge behind me. Alive. Waiting.#