Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 89
89 Devin had started to think that something must have gone horribly, disastrously wrong, but then the deep, agonal sound of the ram's horn finally echoed through the pass, bouncing from cliff to cliff and crag to crag, until it sounded like there...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 88
88 The ground trembled beneath his feet, but Dorin didn't care. They swarmed across the snow, weaving between jutting pieces of rock and dead branches like water breaking upon a riverbank, but Dorin didn't care. Their roar was like the voice of death...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 109
109 Jonah rattled off the story in less than a minute. As terrible as it was, there really wasn't all that much to tell. Many good Foxes dead, Foxes who had tried to help, and a crazy Wolf, wandering through the woods this very moment, headed...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 108
108 The tent rippled and bulged, creating lines of shadows that slithered above their heads like snakes. Ander was sitting on one of the beds, feeling... actually, he didn't know what he was feeling. He knew he felt cold, but that was just on the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 87
87 The entire pass just... _exploded_. Ander stood frozen, watching in horror as a thousand blood-crazed Wolves came storming down the pass, waving spears and axes in the air, screaming and roaring, slobber flying from their teeth. They were like a...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 86
86 Banno's face crinkled and cracked with his smile, shedding bits of frozen skin and blood. Watching Ander go to pieces was a special kind of fun. It was like the final moments of life, when the eyes roll back and the breathing slows, when the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 92
92 Kiana finally made it all the way up to those horrible wooden spikes. Save for the splash of snow that had exploded over the top of the wall, they had been spared the brunt of the avalanche, but she still felt cold and drained. Just making it over...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 91
91 - out of the snow and back into the waking world, where pain and death were more than mere phantoms. Snow tumbled down his face and slid off his back. He was quite possibly colder than he had ever been in his entire life, but Kiana's lips were warm...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 90
90 He knew this darkness. He knew this cold. He had been here before, but when? He couldn't remember... "Your blood is a lie." That voice was right behind him. He could feel the warmth of its breath on his neck, smell the fetid stench of blood and...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 85
85 The world had long since stopped making sense in Ander's eyes. It was no longer a world of matter, of substance, of air and earth and water, or even of flesh and spirit, but of voices and choices, all mixing together, all coalescing into a vortex...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 84
84 Hezzi didn't understand what was going on. He had prepared himself for what was about to happen, or at least, he thought he had. He had seen this very night so many times in his dreams, ever since Ander first came to him and explained what he...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 78
78 Ordinarily Danado would have felt very self-conscious and uncomfortable under these circumstances. Bethany was sitting on a stool near the foot of the bed, carefully treating his toes with a smelly brown liquid that stung like fire. Layla was doing...