Bod breathed roughly against her neck, trying to get his breath back. He ended up just crying again, wondering if he'd ever stop or where all this was even coming from. A dam had burst though and he couldn't barricade things back up.

"I don't want to die," he said again, shaking with the force of the words. "No one deserves what I saw and I don't want to end up like that. It was so bad. It was so bad. I don't want to die."