Fear · common
spooked
Startled INTO fear: jumped by something and not landed yet.
- On the face
- A jolted, white-eyed stare a half-second old.
- Ink recipe
- afraid 90 · surprised 45
- How to find it
- Snap fear and surprise up together from a calm face. Spooked is the jump itself, caught before it settles into plain fear.
More on being spooked
Spooked is a moment, not a mood, which is why it will not sit still on this page. It is the half-second after the jump: fear arriving all at once with surprise a step behind it, the white-eyed stare of a face that has been startled and has not landed yet. Blink and it settles into ordinary fear. Here it just keeps jumping.