Turn loose the mermaids

and so, the show went on it on, every month, every, year, every goddammed thousand years, and Halixas lived and escaped hell once more.

But not this time.

He stayed. He went to Hell, because he head died, and that was everything that counted. God, how he hated himself. All the things he did to live, to protect, to escape what he hated so much and feared so much and never wanted to return to – he never got to end this.

And so, the mermaids were turned loose.