Lay Me Gently in the Cold Dark Earth

He aims to kick at one of the men's legs. It lands, his foot striking the man squarely in the shin. He doesn't react, and suddenly Olli is dangling over the ledge of the open mouth of the grave. He sobs, panicking, now reaching to hold his captors for safety, crying desperately for mercy.He wails, and suddenly he's falling, grasping at empty air. Dirt crumbles away from the edge where his heels had dug in in a last attempt for purchase. He squeezes his eyes shut tightly, begging to wake up and find that this was all a very bad nightmare. The fall feels so much longer than it should for a six-foot drop.Olli has never felt so loved.Title from Work Song by Hozier