The Father and the Son

"The room maintained a palpable cloud of muffled quiet, interrupted only by the crackle of the fire, the occasional cry of a peacock from the lawns or a fox from the woods beyond. It was to this room, late in the afternoon, on a cold day in December, that Abraxas summoned his ten-year-old son, Lucius." What is the thing that scares you most in the world? One shot.