Flight

Among the most haunting story endings in history.
Matthew ch 2 KJV at Bible Gateway.
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Digital composition
incorporating pixels from other illustrations:

Zacharias Priest
God's Outreach Ministry Int. Inc.

Towels c/o
Donna Karan Home Collection.
(No washcloth was received for that unsolicited product placement.)

Steam Bath for Herod's pals
Son of a Duck blog.

Leather bag, much distorted
Cori.com.br.

Night Sky
SMSCS.com

Moon phase for mid-October 6BC
calculated with 1st New Moon of 1AD
per the moon phase calculator at TimeAndDate.com,
then working backward using
modulo 29.530588853
per Wikipedia: Lunar Phase
but I might not have been exactly accurate.