Coronis was the daughter of Phlegyas, King of the Lapiths, and one of Apollo's lovers. Pregnant with Asclepius, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus. A crow informed Apollo of the affair and Apollo, enraged, flung a curse upon the crow so furious that it scorched the crow's feathers, and that's why all crows are black. Apollo sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis because he could not bring himself to. Coronis, feeling dejected, burned her body on a funeral pyre. Hermes, very oddly, gave birth to her unborn child and gave it to the centaur Chiron to raise. Hermes then brought her soul to Tartarus. In this I sought to capture her at the moment of realization that she had been caught, I tried to make her look as introspective as possible, which is apparently a supriseingly difficult task.