Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 96
96 Ander did not know how long he stared at that hand. In reality, it couldn't have been more than a second, but to him, it lasted far longer. Those long, sharp claws. The thin, emaciated fingers. The bony knuckles. How many times had he taken that...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 95
95 Ander's fingers had gone completely numb, but that was okay. He could dig much faster without that burning sensation. _You're not my son..._ He plunged his hands into the ditch. _I don't have any sons..._ He scraped them through the snow. _I...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 94
94 Everything was black and cold and heavy. She did not know where she was or how she came here, only that it wasn't wrong for her to be here. It was right. It was what she deserved. _Cold-hearted bitch!_ She used to have sunshine. She remembered it...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 93
93 "Nilia, I'm - Oof! I'm okay I - Oof! I swear!" Mateo was cold, he was hungry, he was tired, he was fairly certain that Nilia had cracked at least four of his ribs during her overly enthusiastic hug (even the non-enthusiastic ones were no laughing...
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 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 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 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...