Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 60
60 "Look at this, Sai!" Denko said, poking around in the snow up ahead. He was the best tracker they had in this group, so he was leading the way. "Sai!" "I'm coming!" Dorin hated this. He hated it so much. Several times he came so close to just...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 59
59 The first thing he became aware of was the pain. It was always there in his fingers and toes, boring deeper and deeper. It was the first thing he felt when he woke up each morning and it was the last thing he felt as he struggled to get to sleep....
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 58
58 James knew he had been a fool the moment he saw Luke rise up with that axe in hand, and he knew the time for talk (if there ever really was such a thing) was over the moment Banno grabbed his son by the throat. He wasn't there to protect Emily...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 57
57 Luke saw the beast's shadow filling up the golden square of firelight long before he heard the footsteps. It just kept getting bigger and bigger, a shaggy abomination covered in razor spikes and two horns sticking out of the top of its head. It...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 56
56 "Tell him, Valery! Tell him what you really want! Then you and me and Vallah, the three of us can be together forever." She was so warm against his belly. Maybe even warmer than the glow of the waning fire. He could feel her every breath and...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 55
55 "- animal. You got that, Tim? We're dealing with an animal, so don't think of it in any way other than that. It's not a big black Fox, it's not an intelligent Soul, it's just a stupid animal and it's got our sister. Understand?" Tim nodded,...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 54
54 There was already a sizable group gathered by the statue. Dorin could make out the distinctive shapes of Hyker, Ivio, and Wardo, but there were more huddled together in a little palaver, whispering furiously at each other. Dorin recognized their...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 53
53 At a run, it was only a few seconds to the kitchen, one more to pull open the top drawer and grab the big knife, a few seconds more to run back, but those few seconds away from his sister felt to Luke like grains of sand falling through an...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 52
52 It was an ugly knife. Nothing special about it. Just a plain hunk of wood and a piece of metal sticking out of the end, but Dorin couldn't stop staring at it. It was just... "Wrong..." he whispered to absolutely no one. "Wrong, wrong,...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 51
51 It was the scream of his daughter that awoke James from a terrible nightmare of bleeding roses, pulling him back into a world far, far worse than anything his tired mind could dream up, because in this world, all the horrors were frightfully...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 50
50 "You do realise if either of those boys looks in the wrong direction at the wrong time, this entire idea of yours is bust, right?" Sorrin whispered. They were standing just outside the North gate, and he was slightly out of breath from the long...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 49
49 Hot! Valery could feel Banno's breath on her neck and it was so hot! She could feel his tongue slathering her throat, and that was even hotter! Just a slimy lump of meat covered in drool, moving up and down as if he were sucking on a choice piece...