Each crystal reflects the unrelenting light in a rainbow of too-bright hues and at odd angles meant to glint painfully in the corner of the eye and drive away any hint of sheltering shade. He knew this road would be his reward for a life lived too large and violently to qualify for anything so fragile as wings, accepted this truth long, long before his violent life met its violent end, and so is unsurprised and unfaltering. (6 of 8)