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Over The City

Tall anime illustration in near-black and gold. A colossal many-limbed shadow entity the size of a weather system hangs over an entire sleeping city, blotting out the sky from horizon to horizon, its underside erupting into golden light and ash. Far below, alone on a small rooftop and almost lost in the frame, a man braces a rifle of golden light aimed straight up; a single narrow lance rises from the muzzle across the whole height of the picture and detonates inside the thing.

The scale is the argument. The smallest figure in the picture is dismantling the largest, and it takes one thread of light and one sentence to do it.

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