D: L&L - Part 24 | Dot: Underwater
The house was gone. Melsha gone. Snickety gone. Bright Lettins gone. And Dre and Alex. And it was just me again. And again. And again.
I looked up. Nothing in any direction, save an endless forest of dead trees. No little zombies. No purple haze. No burning village. Just three dead trees by the side of the river, and me hanging on with what I had left.
No way Grandma would have gotten through this. Or maybe she was just batshit crazy, after all, and that’s what it took.
D: L&L - Part 23 | Tin Man: Hollow
But me – I had no heart. I pretended and prayed and worried and thought – I watched the rain fall from the clouds and knew it would be a better fate. And then the wizard floated away. And then she disappeared. And all I had left was a fucking ticking clock for a heart attached by a red ribbon.
It was only on the day that I made my first kill, just before the end of it all – the rust and the ruin – that I felt my heart beat.