The Tragedy of War
They’d been fighting for years now. Spinel was still young in the ranks, but she had 200+ years of experience under her metaphorical belt these days. She’d seen so much destruction in so little time, watched so many terrible things happen to people she cared about, but every time someone was hurt, it was just like the first time. It stung. It hurt her as well.
However, this time hurt far more than anything else had. The skies ran grey with smoke and red with the setting sun. The Crystal Gems had been ambushed while relocating, and their enemies held a new type of weapon, one that resembled Spinel’s own but with a glow-in-the-dark, one-hit-kill scheme. Spinel could recall that battle vividly, for that was the day she lost both of her best friends.
The One-Hit Wonders of Homeworld tore through ranks.
300 Crystal Gems went in.
6 came out.
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Time taken: 9 hours
The first image is filtered, the second is the original, and the third is a close-up. I prefer the filtered version personally, but I wanted to include both. :)