Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 177
177 Ander felt the pain before anything else. It came back slowly, seeping through the fog of his delirium like blood through shredded rags. Every inch of him soon turned into a screaming, throbbing collection of pain, but the worst of it was...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 176
176 Ander had been drifting in and out of consciousness, but he had no idea for how long. The only measure of time he had was the lantern at the top of the stairs, shining in the dark like a beacon, egging him on. He'd grab hold of one of the risers,...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 175
175 Nilia showed more of a reaction than Banno did. Her eyes went wide and her mouth dropped open. "You're lying..." she breathed, and the Fox simply smiled that smug, self-satisfied little grin, a grin that had no business being on his mouth when...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 174
174 There was something wrong, but Banno couldn't understand what it was. There was something different. He hated this! He had to resort to leaning against the wall just to keep from falling down. It was like that damn crutch all over again. And then...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 173
173 Mateo slammed the crossbow down on its head and shoved his foot into the stirrup, keeping his eye on Ander's demented freak of a brother. The brute's tongue was hanging out, exposing a great gash right through the middle, as if it were trying to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 172
172 Mateo has lived pretty much his entire life feeling at least some amount of curmudgeonly anger. You could almost say it was his default state. There was always something to be slightly grumpy about. A pebble in your shoe, for instance. Or an...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 171
171 Denko looked straight up at the jet black sky, at the lonely flakes of snow drifting down from above. One there... Two there... materializing out of the dark, flowing with the wind in lazy, serpentine coils. He could hardly believe it, but the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 170
170 There was a lot to take in in a very short amount of time. Nilia kept her eyes trained on Banno, a hulking shadow. There was something unnerving about the way he moved. Maybe because his fur was also black, it was difficult to tell where he ended...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 169
169 Ander's mind reeled. He couldn't have heard her right, he just couldn't have. He had stared death in the face several times before tonight. It was something he understood, perhaps not completely - For who but the dead could ever fully understand...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 10
10 Andrew stopped halfway down the path towards the town hall. "Sarah, is there something wrong?" he asked, looking back over his shoulder. "I just realised how terribly irresponsible it was of me to drop those pieces of glass in the snow. Why, any...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 9
9 The road was eerily quiet. Normally it would be bustling with Foxes, but not now. Almost everyone was inside the town hall, and the only evidence that they had ever existed was the mashup of footprints leading to the entrance, and the only sounds to...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 8
8 She was so convinced that everything would fall apart that she didn't immediately understand the question. She was so entrenched in the certainty that she would only end up killing everyone she loved that even the thinnest glimmer of hope seemed...