SF&F Picture 5 out of 55 by Amanda Rene Bussell.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: Bitter Prayers

You were meant to thank the gods if you survived. In every battle ended the survivors would walk far away from the carnage, the blood, the fires, and get down on their knees and pray.

She knew this when she became a warrior. She never really expected to live, but to die with honor. She never expected to be the last one standing, to be the one who slayed the enemy general. She never expected to be the sole survivor.

She lost everyone. Every man and woman she fought beside, her friends from birth, people she loved. But she was alive. Slowly, with tears in her eyes, she trudged away from the blood, her sore muscles crying for rest. She dropped to her knees not far from the field.

And to the gods, she offered her Bitter Prayers.

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	Categories: [Anime / Manga] [Fights, Duels, Battles] [Warrior, Fighter, Mercenary, Knights, Paladins] [Weapons, Bows, Swords, Blades, Rapiers...] [Woman, Women] Techniques: [Computer-coloured Picture]

Date	Name	Comment
10 Jul 2004	Tamsyn S.R. Sutton	Loading... Now I don't mean to sound offensive this is some of your older work and I think you should redo the picture. Its a great picture but I think your skills have improved and a colour redo would really make it amazing. Course tis just my opinions.
7 Oct 2004	Booya boy	Loading... TELL ME HOW TO DRAW LIKE THAT !!! i can draw manga and anime ok, but not like that! good job
13 May 2005	Camilla Petersen	Loading... That`s just it...a soldier is sitting in the foreground of a pic, or perhaps a large poster(if not enormous...), sits there...fallen on his knees and looks up in the sky, in despair of what the war brings and what it`s like...suffer..suffer..and more suffer...his helmet lays next to him...around him it`s just a big mess, totally chaos...and he asks himself this one question:`Why?` I agree, why does it has to be this way, why? It`ll never end...sad... But the pic was good, and women can fight too you know, there`s lots of women soldiers today, you know... I thought that what I saw was a stony scenery around her, but it might as just be snow too... Poor, poor thing, how is she going to make it now, that`ll haunt her for the rest of her life, those memeories... Keep up the good work...
7 Nov 2005	Rebecca K. Earl	Loading... Awww, the feelings of this are amazing! She looks soo weary and alone and disheartened, and past emotion. Someone please save her!! This is really well done, and i think that you have shown the emotions really well. Great work. Gives you GIANT cookie!!
4 Dec 2005	Kaegan N. Cusenbary	Loading... Wow...so sad.
30 Jan 2006	Paula	Loading... Oh wow, this inspired one of my best stories. It's beautiful.
12 Mar 2006	Driad	Loading... claps wonderful snifles
7 Nov 2006	Messenger	Loading... This reminds me of my war against Satan---but Christ defeated him for me.
20 Feb 2007	Shel	Loading... This is absolutely beautiful, both the picture and the story behind it. Would you mind if I used it for an icon in my livejournal? I'd credit you, of course.
11 Apr 2008	Jake "Phoenix" Beasley	Loading... Don’t mind me, just dying due to overload of beauty...
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SciFi and Fantasy Art: Bitter Prayers