A Common Enemy

Dare awoke with a start, his breathing hard and his heart racing in his chest. For a brief period, he found himself helplessly trapped in the cobwebs of his nightmare, as if he had only awoken from a dream within a dream. After a while, his mind instinctively recognized that the sun had set, as the room's little window no longer let in any light.

He also observed that he was no longer bound, that