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Amidst the sand tides, a Skittler Skipper dies under the harsh sun.
The skipper display the current main phenotype of the species : a layer of specialized cell, creating a boundary between the outside and the inside.
However, what could have been a phenomenous adaptation toward a better future for the Skittler-Skipperkind turned into a curse : the skin is oily, leaking away precious fluids.
Although it protect againt grating from the sand and makes the Skittler Skipper more slippery - a couple ancestor owed a least-short lease on life after escaping fangs of Mawchain thanks to that mutation, a combination of unlucky cancers, failure to reproduces, and being easier preys for Mawchains extinguished dry skins and turned Oily-skin into the base phenotype.
Dessication is now the cause of death of over half of the Skittler Skippers. The species' numbers are tumbling down : Extinction is already nearby for that peculiar specy that attempted to crawl in the living hell your gaze lies upon.
