A futuristic soldier or bounty hunter stands amid drifting smoke, heavy armor plating covering her shoulders and legs, an oversized automatic weapon slung across her body, a lit cigarette held loosely between her lips as smoke curls upward past her face. Blood pools on the checkered floor at her feet, and ruined city architecture looms in the background, suggesting she's just walked away from whatever caused the carnage without much urgency. The armor design, bulky, industrial, clearly built for combat rather than glamour, sits closer to military science fiction than Bisley's more common fantasy or horror subjects, and the character's relaxed, unhurried pose, cigarette in hand rather than weapon raised, does the same work the title suggests: this is someone taking a break, not someone in the middle of a fight. It's a good example of Bisley applying his usual instinct for attitude and body language, shoulders slightly slouched, weight on one hip, an expression that reads as bored rather than alert, to a setting and character type that's less common across the rest of this gallery. The checkered floor pattern, similar to details found on several of Bisley's Lobo motorcycle pieces elsewhere in his catalog, hints that this character may belong to the same loosely science-fictional, biker-adjacent visual world he returned to repeatedly across various projects, even without a clear, identifiable license or character name attached to this particular piece.
She takes a smoke break
