Balto collapsed into the snow as the scale of what he had done suddenly dawned on him.
An entire town of children, dead. All because of him.
Just by trying to help, he had turned the situation from bleak to hopeless.
The wolf-dog lifted a paw over his face to hide the tears that were freezing half-way down his cheek.
He could never return to Nome again. He could never see Jenna after murdering her owner and 30 other innocent children.
Balto grunted at the sense of a nearby figure's breathing.
'Go away.' he groaned, refusing to pay the stranger any attention.
His reply stunned him.
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So, here we are. My first 'real' piece of artwork on AS for a LONG time. Took me about 2-3 hours to make. Everything from character poses to the background is made entirely from scratch on paper and coloured and edited in Photoshop CS4. The wolf is kind of crappily made as it was a last minute pre-submission idea, and I wanted to submit the render before night was out. Hope y'all like. ^^