"Monster. Demon. Nightmare.
All things she could never had dreamed to be perceived as...
She was a knight... an honorable warrior, a hero....
...right?
Demon.
The word echoed in her thoughts.
Even with her heightened senses, nothing compared to the gut-wrenching loneliness that pushed it's way into her body. It forced it's way in no matter how hard she pushed back.
Her knees grew weak as the last threads that tied her to her previous life, the one she loved so much, finally break.
She was alone. And she can never go back."

Jesaki has a pretty lengthy story behind her, and I decided to draw the moment when her world basically started to fall apart. =(
Don't worry though, give her 30 years or so and things will start to get a lot better for her.

Art stuff:
It was first drawn in black/white (value underpainting) then gradient-mapped color onto it. See tutorial here
It was a good warm-up to get into the swing of doing art again =]
Roughly 10 hours or so...I dunno for sure