#under a readmore because of the ce's art and the length of the description

[ofglories]

Thinking about Constantine's Bond craft essence and it honestly hurts a lot.

Even the title of "All Fades to Dust" is agonizing, especially paired with the art, and then you see the description where his grief and anger is so much more obvious than he ever allows himself to show normally...

Just, look at this.

"It's okay to lose the fight, and even to lose the skirmish. But, this is usually how it is to lose in a war with another country. Everyone's lives disappearing, slaves being dragged away. Everything that everyone built up together, the time they spent together, all of it is regarded as utterly meaningless, and disappears.

Just a bit more, just a bit longer and it would've been different, wouldn't it? I think such worthless things. Certainly, you do as well. But... there's no meaning in you remaining there. That which should have been protected has already been reduced to nothing.

My proud citadel walls, my invulnerable three-layered bulwarks. There's no need to cry. Crying is a right afforded only to the civilians that we protect. Instead, get angry. Like a raging asura, like a furious rakshasa, get angry. That is the right that you and I are permitted."