Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 129
129 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 - Part 6: Subchapter 128
128 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 - Part 6: Subchapter 127
127 This smell. Banno knew this smell. He's 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 - Part 6: Subchapter 126
126 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 - Part 6: Subchapter 125
125 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 - Part 6: Subchapter 124
124 They didn't go far before they came across a she-wolf sitting in the shadowy gap between two tents, hugging her knees to her chest and rocking back and forth, muttering beneath her breath. Her hands were soaked in fresh blood, and that was reason...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 123
123 Nilia knew, even before they crashed through the snow-speckled web of bushes at the edge of the basecamp, that something was wrong. She could smell it on the wind, the stench of smoke and blood. The sounds of many voices, broken by the storm into...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 49
49 Dull pain, deep inside his head, throbbing behind his empty eye socket. It was always there, never waning, just like his anger. It boiled inside him, red hot and smoking, as he stepped through the shattered gates. _There were too many simply too...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 48
48 "No..." It was all Dorin could think to say. From this angle, the Pit was no more than a crumbling hole in the ground, bordered by dozens upon dozens of frosted chains feeding into the blackness like a metallic spider's web, but he knew what was...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 47
47 "Line them up. Just like that, yeah." "Are we really going to...?" "What?" "Nothing." Dorin's face felt hot on the inside, but freezing cold on the outside. He was wet and shivering. He didn't understand what was going on. Why was everything...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 46
46 A lot happened in the moments following Wardo's 'verdict', and Dorin saw it all. He saw Ivio, Aisa, and Denko looking at each other, each of them feeling the same fear, the same despair, the same hopelessness. He saw his people - the Wolves he had...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 45
45 The silence was deafening. Everyone's gaze kept switching back and forth between Dorin, standing tall, his challenge hanging in the air, and Wardo, blood slowly dripping down his chin. The Chieftain reached up and wiped the gore away, leaving a...