Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 142
142 Tio could actually feel the heat baking off of her. It wasn't the fire, and it wasn't the blood, it was her, _just her_, as if her anger had come alive. "Layla-Kai?" He looked up, seeing for the first time just what she was changing into, what...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 141
141 Layla ran full tilt into what felt like a fuzzy brick wall, hard enough to rebound and land on her tail with a painful thump. She looked up at the creature looming over her, feeling smaller than small, feeling like a mouse caught between the claws...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 140
140 It started with the sound. The roar of the burning tree coming down on top of them. Thick, black branches cloaked in flame slammed into her back, but before she met the ground, before she even allowed herself to feel the pain, she pulled Tio in...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 139
139 The pine needles were cold and prickly against her palms, wet with a mixture of ice melt and blood. Her fingers were numb. _Everything_ was numb. "Why?" she whispered to herself for the hundredth time, staring up at the wall of fire. "Why!?" She...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 104
104 "Well of course they're not real, you idiot!" Everything stopped. The pressure around Bartholomew's neck disappeared and he crashed down to the snow with a rather unceremonious bump. He gasped for air before anything else, sucking it in as...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 103
103 It all happened so fast, faster than Bartholomew could even process. He saw it happening well enough, but if felt like his brain was a few seconds behind. The gigantic black Wolf grabbed Dean by the head and just... twisted it around, like it was...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 102
102 "Come on, put your back into it, Nicky!" Bartholomew said, shovelling a heap of snow in his brother's general direction. "Sod off, Bart!" "You call that shovelling? I bet old 'Thello's grandmum could shovel better than that, and she's got a hook...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 101
101 The stone was heavy in Jonah's hands. He knew what he had to do with it, but... it wasn't that simple. _Yes it is, you bloody coward. You just have to put it down. So just do it and get it done. Time is ticking away._ Yeah. Just 'put it down'....
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 100
100 Ander slowly started to rise, a loose coil of rope still dangling from his hand. It felt like he was caught in a terrible dream where everything came to pass at only half the speed, like he was stuck deep underwater and had to fight and push with...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 99
99 Even though she went from darkness to darkness, the transition from dreaming to waking was not seamless. There was a difference between seeing nothing but black because your eyes were covered, and seeing nothing but black because your eyes no...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 98
98 Death. Everywhere around her. She could smell it, taste it, hear it, feel it, but most of all, she could _see_ it, dancing in front of her eyes as a thick, black line. It was like a serpent without head or tail, just an endless band of darkness...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 97
97 No sooner had they taken the first steps out of the crumbling trench that had almost served as Shekka's grave than a figure appeared among the swirling spirals of snow. It was only a black silhouette from this distance, backlit by a stuttering line...