Click Click Boom

Tha-thump.

Tha-thump.

Tha-thump tha-thump tha-thump.

A heartbeat isn't really the loudest thing on the planet. I mean it's probably ranked right up there between a churchmouse and a worm. Pretty quiet, right? If you're in the middle of a crowd, it's definitely not something that you'll be able to hear, even if every single person is as silent as the grave. 

But when you're cornered, trapped, confronted, put in a situation where your body temperature rises and your pulse spikes up, a heartbeat can be the equivalent of Niagara Falls. The sound is deafening, a throbbing, continuous roar in your ears, drowning out any other sound. The fact that the only sound that can get through is the sound of your own breathing does not help at all in any situation.

Ever been there? Ever been to that point where your heart is trying to come crashing out of your ribcage and you can hear your ragged breath echoing throughout your skull?

Tha-thump.

Yeah?

Tha-thump.

Really?

Tha-thump.

You're lying.

Tha-thump tha-thump tha-thump.

You don't know what it's like to be trapped and have to weigh your chances of survival, knowing that one wrong move, one move at all, could mean the end.

Tha-thump. Tha-thump. 

Click.

BOOM.

Tha-thump...tha-thump...tha...thump...

You know nothing.