C18 EIGHTEEN

All That Lives Must Die

ROSE

Thou know'st 'tis common: all that lives must die,

Passing through nature to eternity.

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

THE EARTH CRASHED into me as my body collapsed, bones breaking, limbs trembling, the world fading out from pain and fear. Shifting had never felt like this, not even the first time. The bear didn't want to give me up