Most Important 10 Seconds Of His Life
Eric tried to keep his heart rate down. He knew that the next 10 seconds would be very important. It did or die, and quite literally in his case. The animal could easily hurt him if it wanted to.
He took one final breath in and decided to creep across the room to the animal. He had his knife in his hand, he knew what he had to do, and there was no going back now.