When the Abducent stops pulling, the rival muscle wins the tug-of-war. The eye gets pulled inward toward the nose, and the person starts seeing double because their eyes are no longer looking in the same direction.
The Abducent’s home base was a small area called the . Every day, he would travel a long and winding road, passing through the subarachnoid space and tucked-away tunnels like the cavernous sinus, until he reached his destination: the lateral rectus muscle of the eyeball. The Role of "Drawing Away" abducent
Sometimes, the Abducent’s long journey makes him vulnerable. If he gets squeezed by a neighboring blood vessel or stretched by pressure in the brain, he might "fall asleep" on the job, a condition doctors call . When the Abducent stops pulling, the rival muscle