Flying Skewer

Description

"There is no predator more potent upon Darwin IV than the sleek and wide-ranging Skewers. Even the feared Arrowtongues are vulnerable to its swooping attacks. Traveling in mated pairs or, less frequently, in small, flying pods upon the planet’s strong air-currents these predators are found from pole to pole. Bearing a huge, curved nasal-lance, they are almost playful in their methods of dispatching prey tossing their victims in mid-air from one to another until it is completely drained of fluids. One can find the shriveled husks of Skewer victims virtually everywhere upon Darwin’s surface."- Wayne Douglas Barlowe on his alien species, the Flying Skewer, from *Expedition: BEING AN ACCOUNT IN WORDS AND ARTWORK OF THE 2358 A.D. VOYAGE TO DARWIN IV*.