In this confined space, his heart pounded against my chest while I was pinned to the wall. We were sandwiched between the walls to the point that I could delineate the muscles of his arms, abdomen and…legs that were pressed firmly against me. Intense body heat permeated the cramped space, making it stifling to breathe. The sound of his breathing, out-of-sync with mine only served to stir up my anxiety as my mind tried to process the situation.
The reason for our current predicament had to do with the game of tag we are currently playing. As we got closer to the end of the corridor, we saw Saffil standing in the hallway across from us. We were planning to walk over to him when we heard a horde of footsteps in the hall that ran perpendicular to ours. The footsteps became louder and more fra
