One…Living through hell one time was enough to break a Tin Man's heart, but the repetition hardened the shards to icy stone.
Two, three, four, five…It was five minutes of hell keeping time for him as he watched his world ripped apart again and again. Tick-tock the clock wouldn't stop as it started all over again.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve…His voice was hoarse and his throat soar as twelve times an hour he screams for freedom, but tick-tock it plays again and he wonders how long it has been.
Two, four, six, eight…Two hundred and eighty-eight from sun up to sun down. Two hundred and eighty-eight vows to put Zero in the ground. Tick-tock it is night again and fucking hell continues on.
Ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen…Thump, thump, thump he tries to beat his way out, but soon his hands throb and his arms are numb as the ticking and tock-ing flicker and reset. Two thousand and sixteen times it has played and again it starts as though he hasn't seen it enough yet.
Sixteen, thirty-two…He doesn't cry out anymore, just stands in his metal prison and watches with tired, lost eyes as he adds another jot to his mental ticking. This dance macabre is one tock away from one hundred and four thousand, eight hundred and thirty-two…What a fucking way to spend a year.
Thirty-two, thirty-four, thirty-six, thirty-eight…Tick-tock…His body is dirty, his hair is tangled and he watches hell and counts again, but thinks he must be wrong. He lost count, but he can't stop himself from uttering, muttering…Eight hundred thirty-eight thousand, six hundred and fifty-six…Can that be? He closes his eyes but he can still see the play of his life into infinity.
One…This one is different…'A valkyrie,' he thinks, 'come to take his spirit on.' Five minutes of hell, repeated twelve times an hour, twenty-four hours a day…Two thousand and sixteen times per week for fifty-two weeks…One hundred and four thousand eight hundred and thirty-two times eight…And he's being set free by a child-like Valkyrie by the name of DG.
One plus Eight hundred thirty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty-six times
One hundred four thousand eight hundred and thirty-two times a year
Two thousand and sixteen times per week
Two hundred and eighty-eight times a day
Twelve times an hour
Once every five minutes
