Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 68
68 Ander materialized through the layers of falling snow, becoming clearer as Kiana drew near. He was talking to his little brother. "Are the sentries down yet?" "About half," Hezzi replied, his bright red scarf billowing around his ears. "The far...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 67
67 With the wall growing out of the ground like a massive set of spiky teeth, the pass looked more like a hungry mouth than ever before, ready to chomp down and devour anything and everything foolish enough to approach it. And standing right on top of...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 66
66 Eleven beacons, first one halfway through the pass, one at every twist and turn. If it took half a minute to light each one, then that meant the Wolves were already five and a half minutes past the middle by the time the last one flared up, by the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 65
65 Danado stood at the top of Wolf Hill, staring out at the massive black shape that was the Cora. That orange glow halfway to the summit was so small. He knew it was actually a blazing signal fire, built out of many layers of stacked wood - _Just...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 64
64 "How's it lookin out there?" Uncle Jon asked. "Um... not that good, to be honest." Jonah pulled back the curtains a bit, showing them all exactly what he meant by 'not that good'. The last shreds of daylight had bled away, and all anyone could...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 132
The pure white bandage around her finger stood out in stark contrast against her blood-splattered clothes. _we're not allowed to think about ourselves... we're not allowed to think about what might have happened to our daughters... our sisters...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 131
131 "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...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 130
It created an ugly contrast that could turn even the kindest face into a hideous mask of light and dark. surely danado would never look at her that way. he _promised_. he promised to smile for her if things ever looked bad.
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
It was sickly warm and created a jarring contrast she did not like at all. "if you do not tell me where she is..." his fingers started to curl inward.
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...