Hopeful Art for my Novel, Illustrated by La-Sera, Text done by my Godmother
When a famed young war captain and his elite company of soldiers are exiled to a brutal northern outpost by a vengeful Demon King, he must battle monsters, demons, and his own heart to deliver his world from destruction and win the right to a future.
“History, in my mind, is cyclical. It turns like a spindle, echoing across ages – where a nation starts is where they will likely find themselves again. For good or for ill,”
"We was often asked why we chose th’ Pheonix. ‘Surely th’ eagle ’r a hawk would’a been better,’ we was told. But ’em birds didn’t inspire the kind o’ hope we needed,”
“If violence didn’t solve problems, I wouldn’t have joined the Firebirds,”
“It is better that my enemies beg mercy from me, than I beg mercy from my enemies. I will grant my enemies mercy. My enemies have none,”
“If something is not done for love, is it even worth doing?”
“Searching for Fate is a perilous thing. Once you are in her sight, you shall never escape,”
“If anything goes wrong, blame me. It’s usually my fault anyways,”
“A song is like a story, and a story is like a song: rising to a crescendo, then turning back towards home,”
