4 of the 100 Theme Art Challenge.

"Darkness is a knife that peels away the rind of what you think you know about yourself. The shades of your pretenses, the tones of your illusion, the layers of deception that glaze your life into the colors that tint your world- all mean nothing in the darkness. No one can see them, not even you."
-Blade of Tyshalle, by Matthew Woodring Stover