Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 122
122 Kiana pushed against the dead Wolf with all the crazy, panicky strength she could muster, gasping for air and expelling it again in hysterical half-screams. Her hands kept slipping off his blood-drenched neck and his face kept slapping onto her...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 121
121 Kiana barely had enough time to register the dirty, mangy fur and the dried splatters of blood across its bony knuckles before she was yanked right off her feet. She yelled and tried to pull away, but she wasn't touching the ground anymore, so she...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 125
125 A bright flower of pain blossomed against the back of her head, sending warm roots of blood down her neck. There was a voice somewhere... in front of her? Above her? Direction didn't make sense. She could feel something pressing against her back,...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 124
124 They didn't go far before they came across a she-wolf sitting in the shadowy gap between two tents, hugging her knees to her chest and rocking back and forth, muttering beneath her breath. Her hands were soaked in fresh blood, and that was reason...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 123
123 Nilia knew, even before they crashed through the snow-speckled web of bushes at the edge of the basecamp, that something was wrong. She could smell it on the wind, the stench of smoke and blood. The sounds of many voices, broken by the storm into...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 133
133 _Dan was right. You are running._ Nilia tried to still the voice inside her head. It used to be so simple, but ever since she met Mateo it was becoming increasingly hard to do, and this place wasn't making it any easier. The tent was filled to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 152
152 "Who's still in there!?" someone shouted. Bethany did not know who. "For the love of the Cora, who's still in there!?" Voices. That's all they were. "Thoka, you and Ivio keep to the south side! Don't let those freaks get through! Denko, you stay...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 151
151 The flames had grown too high to even think about climbing over the top (not unless she wanted to char the meat right off her bones), so she threw herself down onto her stomach and pressed her cheek flat against the ground. Thank the gods the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 150
150 With every gasp of air, she inhaled a lungful of bittersweet smoke, laced with the smell of burning leaves and something far more unpleasant, something almost profane: the stench of scorched fur and broiling meat. She could hear screams of pain...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 149
149 "Get up! Get the hell up!" The world came back in fits and starts; little pieces of sensory input that didn't make a whole lot of sense at first, conflicting messages that made her wonder if anything was real or if she was back in that horrid...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 148
148 There was light all around her, but not a good kind of light. Not a comforting light. This light was heavy, runny, almost like melted cheese, dripping down the walls of this place in thick, goopy strands. Her head hurt. Bethany raised a hand to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 147
147 There were feelings, but they were all dulled, muffled, as if wrapped in cloth... _No, this isn't a cloth. It's something else. Something warm and fluffy._ For a moment it felt like she was about to break through whatever thin membrane was...