C12 TWELVE

This Be Madness

ROSE

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

RED GLOWING EYES come for me in the dark, attacking me, coming after those I love. My shifter power stirs in me, but I don’t turn into a wolf. I look down and see claws, but not the paws of a wolf. The claws of a bear. I fight the beast, tearing into him, but he’s unnatural, and strong