Character: Caring

Caring held his breath, daring to hope, despite the devastation, Buckingham Palace still stood. The Jaguar skirted the monument, he could see the gilded gates caught in the car’s light – and a white wall, it appeared intact. The dust cleared, there was nothing beyond the gates

A wall without a gate is a wall without hope. — Some gates are more than gates

but a broken palace and debris. Mounds of blasted stones strewn into the distance, the remains of a painting fluttering in the wind.