Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 8
8 - her hands over her mouth and her eyes wide with shock. "Oh my word, I'd nearly forgotten all about that!" she said. "I'm so sorry, Sarah! I don't know what came over me. That was such a terrible time for me, and to hear you talk like Ander was...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 7
7 It turned out 'a little something' was actually a whole lot of big somethings. Kiana was sitting at their kitchen table, staring in disbelief as Sarah rummaged around in every cupboard and drawer, pulling out the most random assortment of foods and...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 6
6 Kiana couldn't believe she was all wrapped up in this stinky, sticky, mess of a Fox! _Oh gods, eww..._ she moaned in her head, constantly on the verge of vomiting. Mateo had developed some... 'difficulties' walking a straight line, so she had no...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 5
5 He wasn't lying on the cold, hard ground anymore. No sharp stones or scratchy twigs digging into his back. This was soft and warm. He knew this feeling. It was the peace of sleep that always lingered for a few minutes just before you woke up...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 4
4 Ander always knew there was a special kind of magic in creating something. It didn't matter whether it was just a little drawing in the dirt or a massive undertaking like building a house. Making something real that wasn't real before, first...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 3
3 - in my bar!" That voice startled Kiana out of her daydreams and slammed her back to earth with an almost audible thud. She looked around, trying to figure out who had shouted so strongly, and then the door to Artello's banged open to the strangest...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 2
2 He wasn't numb enough yet. He could still feel the bartop against his cheek, reeking of rotten grapes. That's all wine really was, when you got down to it. Rotten grape juice. The only reason anybody ever drank the foul stuff was to get drunk, go...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 1
Chapter 5 Blood in the Snow 1 Kiana awoke with a gasp, disoriented and shaking all over. It took her a few seconds to realise she was in her bedroom, lying in bed, staring up at the same old familiar ceiling with the same old familiar bands...
Ander - Chapter 4, Subchapter 50
50 "NOOO!!" Kadai sat bolt upright, gasping for air, his heart thumping madly in his chest. Everything was gone. _Literally_. He was sitting in an endless expanse of white. There was no sky, there was no ground. It was all just white. He didn't even...
Ander - Chapter 4, Subchapter 49
49 "You said you knew what you were doing! Look at him!" "Be quiet! You want every Wolf in the village to hear you?" There were voices, loud and booming. And there were smells. He could smell medicine, herbs, dry blood. And there was pain, lots of...
Ander - Chapter 4, Subchapter 48
48 "I promise... I won't... let anything... happen..." Luke's words slipped out in haphazard mutterings, falling from his numb lips in-between gasps for breath. It felt like his lungs were both freezing and burning at the same time, but he couldn't...
Ander - Chapter 4, Subchapter 47
47 Through that black window, through the shadows and underneath the blankets lay Banno, fast asleep. He could hear the fire outside, but the sound in his dream did not belong to a fire. It belonged to a river. It wasn't a raging, dirty brown serpent...