Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 62
62 "You all know your parts?" Dorin asked, and all his men nodded their heads in unison. "Good. Danado may have the positional advantage, but we have the numbers. No matter how good he is with that bow, he can only shoot at one of us at a time....
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 61
61 The rocks were slippery beneath his bare feet, constantly shifting over each other as if consciously trying to trip him up. They pushed painfully against his soles with every step, but he had no idea how long the feeling in his feet would last with...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 60
60 - made her go outside! In the cold! What kind of a terrible father are you, huh!?" Banno swiped his claws across James's face, but the dead Fox only nodded once and lay still again, just an empty piece of meat with a flapping jaw. "Hey! I'm talking...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 59
59 "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 - Chapter 5, Subchapter 58
58 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 - Chapter 5, Subchapter 57
57 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 - Chapter 5, Subchapter 56
56 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 - Chapter 5, Subchapter 55
55 "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 - Chapter 5, Subchapter 54
54 "- 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 its got our sister. Understand?" Tim nodded,...
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 53
53 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 - Chapter 5, Subchapter 52
52 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 - Chapter 5, Subchapter 51
51 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,...