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Lyrics: "The Road and the Damned" by Coheed and Cambria
Chapter 1- The Road and the Damned
"I believed, in the world right in front of me but now, along these empty streets where this curse haunts these memories of a man and all he's lost."
Benjamin Linus walked slowly into the quiet village. In all of the years he had lived there, he had never heard such silence. He stopped and surveyed the courtyard.
"No time to think about it, no room to breathe"
His eyes grew wide when he saw the first of the bodies. A young woman, he remembered her to be Susie, was lying on the ground near the volleyball net. Deep red blood trickled from her nose and mouth. She wasn't the only one. Every direction he looked he saw more of the dead. They all had blood on their faces because they had all died the same way.
"If I had a way back I'd ride through the dark and the dawn.
But please don't wait for me, because the man you loved don't live anymore.
I can't go home again."
He resumed his walk until he came to a park bench and was unable to go further. On the bench sat the only one of them he had ever admired. He had respected Horace and had often wondered if his life would have turned out differently if he had been his father instead of the worthless man whose body was still sitting in a work van up the hill. He reached out a tentative hand and closed the poor man's eyes. Horace deserved better than this.
"Tonight you'll sleep, no fear of what might become of me, my dear.
Within these end of days, where this longing turns this man to prey.
On a love that yearns to die."
Had he made a mistake? Had he been too hasty to decide the fate of over forty lives? Perhaps he had gotten himself in over his head.
'I'm not sure I can handle this.' He whispered to himself as he once again looked over the village.
He had succeeded in his task. He had killed them all.
"What have I done?"