A fair skinned woman with ball joints floats above the ground, her knees pulled up to her chest. Her shoulder length auburn hair falls over one eye and she looks up at the viewer, lips parted slightly. Her arms are pulled in to her chest, one hand over her stomach.
Hidden beneath the arms/hands her torso has been opened, and she is clutching black tubing that's been pulled out of her. The tubing is various lengths and widths, and black liquid seeps out and pools on the floor below her. The tubing is evocative of entrails that have been pulled from the body. She clutches them protectively but to no avail; the damage has been done.
Behind her the background is a grey gradient with golden rings, behind her like a halo.
On the same background stands a fair skinned man with dirty blonde shoulder length hair. His eyes are closed peacefully, but the dark circles are still visible. He wears a steel blue formal jacket and smiles softly. In his hands he clutches an assortment of black tubing of various widths. Black liquid covers his hands, and he clutches the tubing against his chest with one hand, and holds a fistful of them up to his lips with the other. The gesture looks tender and affectionate, but is contrasted by the brutality of what he's holding. The context of the previous image means that he is lovingly gripping the "bloody" insides of the woman from that image.
Behind him is the same background, but the rings frame his head like a Halo. His affection resembles reverence and is reinforced by imagery of the background.
At the foot of the image the black "blood" is splattered against the wall, reflecting the violence of this "affection"
-The Beloved and The Zealot-
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[Warning for light nudity and warforged gore]
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