Incident On Bannerville
(专辑: Shriek: Excerpts From The Soundtrack - 2009)
We were on a
street called Bannerville. I
remember that. Huh. The
streetlights were bare of the
terrible burden of death. Yeah. Some of them work. They glowed green. At the
end of Bannerville, we'd turn to the
right and we'd be a
block away from the
Truffidian Cathedral. A
strange surge of joy or recognition overtook us, all out of proportion to our reality. We began to run, to laugh, abandoning our shuffle through the
shadows; with safety so close, it was agony to walk slowly. The
worst seemed past. It really did. I
was already thinking about what I'd say to Bonmot. I
was already thinking about that, Truff help me. And Sybel had been holding my hand. He was a
little behind me at this point. We were almost at the
end of Bannerville, not more than twenty feet from safety. Overhead, a
street lamp flickered free of the
green glow that pervaded the
rest of the
city. And we were both about to turn the
corner. I
could hear Sybel's heavy breathing as he ran. Then I
heard an unfamiliar sound-a sound trapped between a
gasp and a
moan-and when I
turned and looked at Sybel, all I
could see was a
mist of blood, floating out in streamers. I
stopped running and stared. I
couldn't breathe for a
second. Nothing of him was left-not even his shoes, man. Nothing at all. His dissolution was complete and utter. There was such a
final terrible beauty to it. I
thought it must be an absurd magic trick, a
horrible joke. But it wasn't, and the
laughter caught in my throat and became a
sob. Yeah, laughter caught in my throat and became a
sob. Yeah. (The closer I
get to the
end) (The closer I
get to the
end) (The closer I
get to the
end) The
closer I
get to the
beginning (The closer I
get to the
end) (The closer I
get to the
end) The
closer I
get to the
beginning (The closer I
get to the
end) (The closer I
get to the
end) The
closer I
get to the
beginning (The closer I
get to the
end)