Walking on a black sand beach, I could hear the ocean but my vision was obscured to either side. There was a soft sound like steps on sand and I turned to see a pure black polar bear. With eyes that shone like distant stars & fur as glossy as a raven's wing. A fog bank was trailing in it's wake, with spirit bears bound and insubstantial within. I felt it was the Reaper, come to shepherd away the souls of the dead but he did not stop for me long.