Blackness takes.
Spreads by thine blade
through veins seized with fear.
Is this the end?
It is near.
Flurry of wings.
Hermes, come,
hear my call.
Take me to Hades.
Do not overlook me,
I am here.
“Felled by Blade” is hand inked and hand painted with India ink on 10” x 10” Bristol Vellum. It depicts a moment in time from the Trojan War – the war that we find ourselves in, in the Secrets Comic Issue 1. Nine years long, the men are tired and yearn for one of two things: death and glory, or home, where they will find peace again. But it will be a whole year and many more deaths before that wish is realized. For this particular Greek, it is to Hades with him, for the Trojan – who knows? Perhaps he lives to fight another day, or finds himself facing off with an angered friend. Such is the way of war. No one really wins in the end… Except, perhaps, Hades?
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