Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 97
97 No sooner had they taken the first steps out of the crumbling trench that had almost served as Shekka's grave than a figure appeared among the swirling spirals of snow. It was only a black silhouette from this distance, backlit by a stuttering line...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 96
96 Ander did not know how long he stared at that hand. In reality, it couldn't have been more than a second, but to him, it lasted far longer. Those long, sharp claws. The thin, emaciated fingers. The bony knuckles. How many times had he taken that...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 95
95 Ander's fingers had gone completely numb, but that was okay. He could dig much faster without that burning sensation. _You're not my son..._ He plunged his hands into the ditch. _I don't have any sons..._ He scraped them through the snow. _I...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 99
99 Even though she went from darkness to darkness, the transition from dreaming to waking was not seamless. There was a difference between seeing nothing but black because your eyes were covered, and seeing nothing but black because your eyes no...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 98
98 Death. Everywhere around her. She could smell it, taste it, hear it, feel it, but most of all, she could _see_ it, dancing in front of her eyes as a thick, black line. It was like a serpent without head or tail, just an endless band of darkness...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 70
70 Shadows upon shadows, birthing and dying inside the absolute blackness of the Cora's pass, their lives bookended by millions upon millions of flakes of snow. Ander stared into this chaotic mess, feeling like the pass was staring right back....
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 69
69 Bethany kept throwing suspicious glances at that empty bed in the corner, almost daring it to show her that delusion again, the one with Rufio and all the... all the stuff that wasn't real. If she could see it again, she was positive she'd be able...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 73
73 - stop it!!" There was a time Hezzi would have been horrified to have so many eyes on him again. It was always followed by some terrible event. _Always_. But now he wasn't even aware of their empty stares, their blood-crazed eyes. He had grabbed...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 72
72 It was as if that dead voice had jumped from his head and into the real world. It was flesh and blood, horribly real, and yet Ander still could not accept it. He kept seeing that arrow puncturing the thin membrane of Banno's eye, erupting into a...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 71
71 Dorin's eyes darted from the walls of stone on their flanks to the wall of wood barring the way. Hundreds and hundreds of Foxes were lining the top, each of them with a bow in hand and a quiver of arrows over their shoulder. _We're going to die...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 132
132 Layla had just finished checking Dorin's head - _Okay, he's going to need a looooot of stitches before this night is through._ - when Mother came rushing over, swinging her big black bag by her side. Her clothes were completely shredded. Her...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 127
127 This smell. Banno knew this smell. He's smelt it before. Not quite like this, though. This was a bit different, which was why it had taken him so long to figure it out, but now that he was here, breathing it in, there was no mistake. Few knew...