The pain I was feeling was far more intense than anything I’d ever felt in my entire life. It burned, it ripped. I felt like my bones were changing shape, breaking into new forms that would leave me disfigured. I cried and I screamed. I begged Ethan to make it stop. At least, I think I did. I wasn’t sure if there were actual words coming from my mouth, or if they were all grunts and whimpers of pain. It felt like my body was a shell and something was trying to break out of it. I felt pressure around my back and against my neck. It was separate from the pain in my body, I think it was Ethan trying to hold me and comfort me. I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t even remember where I was, my eyes were screwed shut and I was in too much pain to even use my eyelids. My muscles tensed and seized agains

