Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 42
42 _Dan was right. You are running._ Nilia tried to still the voice inside her head. It used to be so simple, but ever since she met Mateo it was becoming increasingly hard to do, and this place wasn't making it any easier. The tent was filled to...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 41
41 Layla had just finished checking Dorin's head - _Okay, he's going to need a looooot of stitches before this night is through._ - when Mother came rushing over, swinging her big black bag by her side. Her clothes were completely shredded. Her...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 40
40 "By the Cora, what -" The curmudgeon with the splinted leg's eyes had gone wide and he was pointing at the wall with a scabbed finger. Layla twisted around, still holding Tio close just in case the crazies were throwing stuff again, but the things...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 39
39 This was hell. Layla could barely hear herself think over all the noise. Shouting and screaming. Vicious snarls. Bloodcurdling howls of pain. Animalistic grunts. The crying of a small child. She was just outside the medical tent, if you could...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 38
38 It was just a haze. The burning in his chest. The deep ache in his side. The cold. The faraway screams. The smell of smoke. None of it could reach him. None of it could get through. His anger was too great. Ander hurried through the woods, bent...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 37
37 There was only so much fear a vixen could endure before it reached a plateau, a place where she simply could not bear any more. Kiana had reached that point when Banno started to lick her stomach, dragging that hot, slimy piece of meat across her...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 36
36 This smell. Banno knew this smell. He'd smelt it before. Not quite like this, though. This was a bit different, which was why it had taken him so long to figure it out, but now that he was here, breathing it in, there was no mistake. Few knew...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 35
35 Neither of them moved. Neither of them spoke. They could only stare at the aftermath, each of them, in their own way, trying to decipher what could have happened here. What all this destruction could possibly mean. There were streaks of drying...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 34
34 A bright flower of pain blossomed against the back of her head, sending warm roots of blood down her neck. There was a voice somewhere... in front of her? Above her? Direction didn't make sense. She could feel something pressing against her back,...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 10 (The End)
10 "Kiana?" He stepped inside and eased the door shut behind him, wincing at the click of the latch. She didn't stir. She simply kept on breathing, slow and steady, her arms wrapped around the bundle of blankets, and a smile... a tiny, exhausted...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 9
9 Ander was vaguely aware of an awful throbbing in his fingers, but that seemed far away and unimportant. There was something else going on, something so fundamentally wrong it was able to reach him even through the shifting haze of shadows he had...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 8
8 - here!" Ander didn't open the front door so much as he _smashed_ it open and tumbled inside like a lunatic. Salem and Hezzi were already there. Hezzi was pacing up and down in front of the fireplace, and Salem was relaxing by the open window,...