I don't think so. It didn't feel like that at all. [But how can he explain what it did feel like?]

There's another memory I've got. When I first remembered it, I didn't know what was going on--I thought I'd remembered dying. I was walking in this place called the realm of darkness, and it felt like something was leeching away my strength. [Almost instinctively, his free hand comes up, resting over his heart.] If I'd let it, it would've eaten away at me until there was nothing left. I would've faded away into the darkness.

That's kind of what it was like. I could feel myself fading, like the strength was being sapped out of me. Like the fight had taken everything I had.