SKEWER - 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.

I really like the shapes and patterns on orcas and that admiration found its way into this piece. It was an early idea to do an aerial painting - a tip of my hat to all the aviation art I enjoy so much. The Skewers were always meant to be something of a deus ex machina , descending nearly unseen from heaven to lift off some pathetic animal, only to vanish as quickly as they appeared.