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.