What Comes of Wishful Thinking

Warning; spoiler alert below for Wings of Fire Legends: Darkstalker, and of a short passage depicting death.


"Now," Darkstalker leaned towards Arctic, his claws gouging into the wood of the stage.  "Take your talons, rip open your stomach, and show us all what you're really like inside.  Pour out your life on this stage."
It took a long time, and it was messy, and at the end of it, when Arctic was definitely dead, Darkstalker did not feel nearly as happy as he'd expected.

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I wanted to draw this scene the way that it was shown to us in the book; very little focus on Arctic's demise, but rather on the effect it had on the characters.  This was really the turning point in the story; where things became so bad that there was no going back.

(Left to right; Clearsight, Whiteout, and Darkstalker.)