“These voices won’t leave me alone.”
halsey ‘badlands’ starter sentences
it’s godawful, it’s PERPETUAL MADNESS, and a whirlwind of chaos that will only suck her down into an abyss, that EVEN RILEY, cannot seem to find A BOTTOM to. for it never ends. the pain, the sorrow, and the madness. there is only THE LIGHT, or THE INKY BLACK that seems to have weaved it’s limbs around her legs. she’s snared in A SPIDERS WEB. and soon she will be CONSUMED WHOLE. riley’s seen it before. he’s even felt it himself. but the only reason he can fight off those tendrils, is because HE IS NOT for the abyss to take. he is for the fires below. the SMOKE and the ASH. rather than the empty, nothingness that wishes to claim THIS GIRL as it’s own. hell has it’s marks on his bones, and IT’S FIRE in his blood ; where as THE LIGHT can only just touch the features of his face, and the blackness taints HER soul.
beth greene will belong to it. the empty void THAT IS PURGATORY. a place where the restless are trapped to wander in ETERNAL ANGUISH. and some, may even say it’s a place WORSE THAN hell. only there is an escape from purgatory. where as hell, is final, absolute and complete. riley will never taste SUCH ANGUISH. just as he will never touch the clouds above, and THE LIGHT that he reaches for each and every day. because he, is a NECROMANCER. a boy with the darkest of magicks in his blood. and though he may appear to brandish a halo. there are RAM HORNS, curled in shape upon his head. he is a hellish servant. and his purpose, was never once meant to be used for anyone OTHER THAN himself, and the fire.
yet he breaks THOSE CHAINS. and maybe it is his youth. and the way he was raised. but he’s fighting, against the order of things. and so he takes HER HAND. and though not once has he ever touched her before this time. he can FEEL HER. solid as if he were touching a living person, A BODY of flesh and muscle. when really, he’s grabbing her soul. by THE VERY BEING of everything that makes BETH GREENE, who she is. he’s tearing her from the blackness’ grasp, and he is pulling her back to the surface. away from THE VOICES. away from THE BLACKNESS. back to life, and far– far, from DEATH. for riley is god to this girl now. even if he wished to be but A MORTAL BOY. which he can never, truly be. for it is HIS BLOOD, that brings her life. it is his blood, that returns her to her rotting body and repairs the damage once done. and though he cannot start HER HEART, it will remain, though silent– forever within her chest. && that blood of his, IS NOW HERS. every bit of life, THAT RILEY contains within himself ; shared with beth. he is tied to her, and she is tied to him. and if he ever severed that bond. she would drop, same as THE DAY SHE DIED.