OOM: Making Tracks, Part 4: Breaking Point
They're watching him. The three of them, on the train, the lone bare lightblub casting disgusting shadows across their masks.
(Horrible masks, all staring at him, they've been staring at him, souless eyes so souless...)
tell us, barney
tell us where white forest is
we'll help them
they're in danger
just tell us
it's easy
“Nn-noo,” Barney groans weakly, as his speech tumbles out and does an inky pirouette around his head. Smoke trails off the masks, and those souless eyes start to glow, flames reaching out to lick at him as they move closer.
tell us.
please tell us the way to white forest.
“No,” he whispers back, scared as a little child, shrinking from the eyes, the flames, unnatural
TELL US!!!
TELL US!!!
TELL US!!!
TELL US!!!
Barney screams, hiding his head behind his hands, but his body's limp, it's gone where's his body--
WHAM!!
--his body's in pain.
WHAM!!
TELL US!!!
TELL US!!!
Barney whimpers, tears falling over his face and mud and blood. “Please... don't hurt them.”
...we won't...
It smiles.
And he tells them. He tells them where it is, he tells them about Eli and Issac and-please don't hurt them?-Alyx and Gordon are on their way, and then his voice fades into sobs as his broken mind catches up with what he's done.
“No! No, no, no, you're wrong, not right, it's all wrong...”
But the voice pushes.
...what are they doing there, barney...
The question hangs in the air, heavy.
[what are you doing]
(Horrible masks, all staring at him, they've been staring at him, souless eyes so souless...)
tell us, barney
tell us where white forest is
we'll help them
they're in danger
just tell us
it's easy
“Nn-noo,” Barney groans weakly, as his speech tumbles out and does an inky pirouette around his head. Smoke trails off the masks, and those souless eyes start to glow, flames reaching out to lick at him as they move closer.
tell us.
please tell us the way to white forest.
“No,” he whispers back, scared as a little child, shrinking from the eyes, the flames, unnatural
TELL US!!!
TELL US!!!
TELL US!!!
TELL US!!!
Barney screams, hiding his head behind his hands, but his body's limp, it's gone where's his body--
WHAM!!
--his body's in pain.
WHAM!!
TELL US!!!
TELL US!!!
Barney whimpers, tears falling over his face and mud and blood. “Please... don't hurt them.”
...we won't...
It smiles.
And he tells them. He tells them where it is, he tells them about Eli and Issac and-please don't hurt them?-Alyx and Gordon are on their way, and then his voice fades into sobs as his broken mind catches up with what he's done.
“No! No, no, no, you're wrong, not right, it's all wrong...”
But the voice pushes.
...what are they doing there, barney...
The question hangs in the air, heavy.
[what are you doing]