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A digital drawing, fully colored and done in a messy sketch style. The scene is an underground cavern, with four skeletons standing around in the background. In the foreground, a woman (Wake) in a battered orange hazard suit with a collapsed green parachute lies curled around a metal-and-glass container that houses a sleeping baby with red hair. There is a power line running from the hazard suit into the container. both the woman's head and the baby's are hallowed in soft yellow light: the woman's from a shaft of light coming down from above, and the baby's from the container. Other than them, there is very little color in the picture. To the left of Wake, an old woman with a sword and one skeleton leg leans one knee, facing away from the viewer. Behind Wake are two nuns kneeling over her, their hands outstretched as if they are attempting to raise her spirit. Theyboth have veils and have two bone rosaries each. Behind them stands a very old, slouched man, who has a knife strapped to his back. They are all wearing various shades of black. In the far background, the cave melts into a night sky featuring a spaceship made of concentric rings. ALT
A screenshot from the app procreate of a zoomed in section of the drawing. It shows Wake, curled around the baby in the transport container, and the old woman kneeling to the left. The two nuns are in frame, but the old man is not.ALT

One day eighteen years ago, Gideon’s mother had tumbled down the middle of the shaft in a dragchute and a battered hazard suit, like some moth drifting slowly down into the dark. The suit had been out of power for a couple of minutes. The woman landed brain-dead. All the battery power had been sucked away by a bio-container plugged into the suit, and inside that container was Gideon, only a day old.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee