This shattered his sense of juvenile invulnerability.
Sacrifice ----- Letting go ----- Surrendering
"Leo. You will disappear, with your innocence lost. They will not believe that you returned whole."
Leo tripped into the carnivorous crack in the earth, his nails clinging onto the outcrop of the floating ruin.
There was a loud crack and the boy disappeared into the whistling winds and torrential darkness.
It was never known if it was the wilds or the Lynchers that turned him wild.