8) Ain't No Rest for the Wicked- Cage the Elephant
Tooth was in a strange mood.
They had just returned from cleaning up a stray band of rogue nightmares that was terrorizing the local children in a little village in southern Italy. They had all returned to their respective duties promptly afterwards, but when Jack had come to visit Tooth he found her with her chin in her hand, staring off into the middle distance.
"Tooth?" he said, waving his hand in front of her face.
She didn't look at him, and the only thing that told him she knew he was there was when she said, "I don't understand it."
Jack gently settled down next to her. "Don't understand what?"
"Why someone would want to live like that."
Jack said nothing, deciding to let her talk it out.
"Pitch lives with nothing but darkness every day. He doesn't know happiness or joy, and everything he does he does for the sake of bringing fear. What kind of existence is that? What makes him want to live that kind of life?"
After a moment of silence, Jack said. "I don't pretend to understand why Pitch does what he does. But I'm going to tell you the truth, brutal as it may be." Tooth turned and looked directly into his eyes as he said, "He won't slow down, he won't hold back, even if he wishes he could. Because there ain't no rest for the wicked until we close our eyes for good."
Tooth's eyes saddened, but then he continued. "But you know what else, Tooth? As long as there is wickedness in the world there will be people trying to stop it. People like you, and like me: warriors of love."
She smiled at him and kissed him on the cheek, and they linked hands and looked out over the landscape of the Tooth Palace together.
