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 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
130 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 - Part 6: Subchapter 138
138 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 - Part 6: Subchapter 80
80 - quiet darkness. This was what she should have gotten from the start. It was what she deserved. Nothing but cold against her skin and the dull, mindless rumble of the wind. Someone grabbed her by the wrists and pulled her hands away from her...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 79
79 It wouldn't be long now. Dorin didn't know how he knew this, but he could sense it coming. It was like that flash of instinct right before a deer comes barrelling through the woods, and you somehow already have an arrow nocked and ready, like you...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 42
42 For a moment, there was silence. Then the jeering began. Wolves scoffed and made rude hand gestures, yelling curses and foul insults. "Not this again!?" "We've waited long enough!" "If you're too scared to fight, you can go home and curl up with...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 41
41 Dorin wasn't ready for this, but time had run out. There would be no more stalling, no more planning, and no more hesitating. Wardo was in one of the northern watchtowers. From high up there he could look down on everyone, and force everyone down...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 40
40 There was chaos all around him, terrible and familiar, a gut-wrenching return to that awful night that started it all - the night of Ander's trial. There was no bonfire this time, but everything else was the same: the jostling crowds of ecstatic...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 33
33 "Faster, you lazy slugs!" Dorin shouted. "Hezzi would have circled the village three times by now and you've barely finished the first! Move move move!" The small pack of Wolves groaned their displeasure and continued on their way, dragging their...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 44
44 Dorin felt like a huge weight was slowly melting off his shoulders. He was never one for fancy speeches, but... he thought that one went okay. Maybe a bit long, especially after he said there wouldn't be any more speeches, but... okay. _The choice...