" don't cry, don't raise your eye. it's only teenage wasteland."
she arrived just the same as everyone else. scared, confused, and lacking fifteen years of memories. the only difference, however, was the fact that she was a 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭.
nevertheless, f...
ACT II in which a group of survivors must trek through a new hellscape all because they escaped their lasthellscape.
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"have you done it?"
"no... no, not yet. i'm.. not sure i can. i'm not sure i'm ready."
"well, when you are, i'm right here."
"i know you are, antony. thank you."
volume 2.0
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seven nation army the white stripes. "i'm gonna fight 'em off. seven nation army couldn't hold me back. they're gonna rip it off, taking their time right behind my back."
sara fleetwood mac. "said sara, you're the poet in my heart. never change, never stop, but now it's gone."
somebody's watching me rockwell. "i always feel like somebody's watching me, and I have no privacy. i always feel like somebody's watching me, tell me is it just a dream?"
cough syrup young the giant. "i'm waiting for this cough syrup to come down, come down."
hunger florence + the machine. "don't let them get you down, you're the best thing i've seen. we never found the answer but we knew one thing—we all have a hunger."
wish you were here pink floyd. "how i wish, how i wish you were here. we're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, running over the same old ground."
way down we go kaleo. "oh, father tell me, do we get what we deserve? whoa, we get what we deserve, and way down we go."
youth daughter. "shadows settle on the place, that you left. our minds are troubled by the emptiness."
losing my religion r.e.m. "that's me in the corner, that's me in the spot-light losing my religion."
life on mars? david bowie. "oh man, wonder if he'll ever know he's in the best selling show, is there life on mars?"
knights of cydonia muse. "no one's gonna take me alive, time has come to make things right. you and i must fight for our rights, you and i must fight to survive."
where the streets have no name u2. "i wanna feel sunlight on my face, i see that dust cloud disappear without a trace. i wanna take shelter from the poison rain where the streets have no name."
sweet child o' mine guns n' roses. "she's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain. i'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain."
where is my mind the pixies. "with your feet in the air and your head on the ground try this trick and spin it, yeah. your head will collapse 'cause there's nothing in it and you'll ask yourself 'where is my mind?'"
take it easy eagles. "lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. just find a place to make your stand and take it easy."
yesterday the beatles. "yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away."
at last etta james. "at last, my love had come along. my lonely days are over, and life is like a song."
iris goo goo dolls. "and all I can taste is this moment, and all I can breathe is your life, and sooner or later, it's over. i just don't wanna miss you tonight."
home edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros. "alabama, arkansas, i do love my ma and pa, but not the way that i do love you."
smells like teen spirit nirvana. "load up on guns, bring your friends. it's fun to lose and to pretend."
the night we met lord huron. "and then i can tell myself what the hell I'm supposed to do, and then i can tell myself not to ride along with you."
river leon bridges. "been traveling these wide roads for so long. my heart's been far from you, ten thousand miles gone."
violet sighed, her shoulders collapsing as the air exited her lungs. she stared absentmindedly at the blinking screen in front of her. helpless fingers rubbed at her temples, trying to relieve herself of the stress that pounded against her brain.
she was so tired, tired of watching these kids and fearing for their lives, tired of the crippling concern that everything would go wrong. above all else, she was terrified that, after everything she'd done to keep florence alive, she would end up dead after all.
but now, they'd escaped. not all of them, of course, but a chosen few, the strongest few. it was heartbreaking to think that, even after surviving the first trial, so many of them were destined to do nothing but die, anyway.
even so, violet refused to let that reality happen. not as she shifted her gaze to look at the letter on the table, her handwriting a chicken scratch of panic.
the first line read, 'my dearest florence, i have so much to explain.'
