C12 TWELVE

Courage

ROSE

Screw your courage to the sticking-place.

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth

I AGREED, NOT because I looked forward to an eternity of torment as this beast sucked me dry, devouring my pain and causing more to feed on it, but because if I didn't agree, then it would be Derek and Dean who suffered that fate, and I couldn't let that happen. Not ever