Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 54
54 The breath whistled in and out of Dorin's chest as he limped across the battlefield, splashing through puddles of blood and snowmelt. Serrated walls of fire had appeared like scars upon his path, casting an otherworldly glow upon the earth. This...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 53
53 She could feel the vibrations of their footfalls travelling through the ground beneath her knees. The pain in her back was steadily getting worse, and her swollen lips stung with every intake of freezing air. "Dan...?" His eyes were closed, but...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 52
52 Layla had a split-second view of Hokin's maw before a heavy branch, its top half encrusted with a network of red-hot glowing cracks and crowned in flame, caught him right between his gaping jaws, exploding the teeth from his mouth in a shower of...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 51
51 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 - Chapter 7, Subchapter 50
50 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 - Chapter 7, Subchapter 49
49 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 - Chapter 7, Subchapter 48
48 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 - Chapter 7, Subchapter 47
47 He landed on the other side of the wall in a surge of smoke and fire. Blood dribbled from between his scorched bandages and flowed across the snowy ground. The pain was so bad he couldn't even see. The whole world was just a blinding flash of...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 46
46 Danado very nearly collapsed. Every second standing up was akin to torture. Already the sweat was standing out on his forehead, horribly cold against the chilling winds. The ground swayed beneath his crippled feet. Bursts of flame and drifts of...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 45
45 Danado felt isolated, cut off, separate from everything happening around him, trapped inside his own bubble of space just outside the medical tent, unable to move, unable to get up, unable to do anything but sit here, watching Hell itself...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 44
44 Nilia was deep in thought, walking down that narrow path that would lead her back outside, back into the frozen hell of blood and snow. Back into the insane world of comrade turned enemy turned mindless animal. She had barely made it through the...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 43
43 Nilia was being selfish. She knew this, but at the same time she couldn't turn away from it. She couldn't turn away from _him_. She had fought through hell to reach this place. She had done everything Ander had asked of her. Was it really such a...