A defenseless Vessel

It breaths heavily. It glances around as you corner it. Too panicked before to try to run away, you've already succeeded in cutting any escape from it. It stares at you with those wide, hollow, dark eyes, and even with no expression on its face, it's clearly distressed. Terrified. As you step even closer, it stops looking anywhere beside you, the full focus on what it sees as an obvious threat. The small being still doesn't say a word. You start to doubt it can. But if that's a problem or not — you are up to decide