Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 84
84 Hezzi didn't understand what was going on. He had prepared himself for what was about to happen, or at least, he thought he had. He had seen this very night so many times in his dreams, ever since Ander first came to him and explained what he...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 83
83 Aisa could barely believe her ears. Miracle after miracle, and still this child could deliver. To actually beg for the life of the miserable she-wolf who had caused her nothing but pain and hardship her entire life... Dorin sidled up next to her...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 82
82 _What?_ Aisa couldn't have heard that right. The wind in this place was so loud it must have drowned out her true meaning, because she couldn't have said what she thought she just said. It was impossible. _I hate you._ Yes, that must have been...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 81
81 The distance to that wall couldn't have been more than a few strides, but it felt much farther to Renna. The planks creaked beneath her feet with every step, and a multitude of eyes, both Wolf and Fox, followed her slow progress in dead...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 80
80 - quiet darkness. This was what she should have gotten from the start. It was what she deserved. Nothing but cold against her skin and the dull, mindless rumble of the wind. Someone grabbed her by the wrists and pulled her hands away from her...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 79
79 It wouldn't be long now. Dorin didn't know how he knew this, but he could sense it coming. It was like that flash of instinct right before a deer comes barrelling through the woods, and you somehow already have an arrow nocked and ready, like you...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 78
78 Ordinarily Danado would have felt very self-conscious and uncomfortable under these circumstances. Bethany was sitting on a stool near the foot of the bed, carefully treating his toes with a smelly brown liquid that stung like fire. Layla was doing...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 77
77 The sound of her laughter came flooding back from the darkest corners of Sorrin's mind, unlocking memories he had spent many sleepless nights sealing away with his tears. _Higher, Daddy! Higher!_ The weight of her tiny body in his arms, the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 76
76 Just like Nilia, Banno appeared to be at a standstill, but in reality he was concentrating incredibly hard. His focus, however, was not aimed at the Wolves or the Foxes (he couldn't care less about what might be going on in whatever passed for a...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 75
75 Nilia did not move. She did not speak. She did not act in any way. To an outsider, it would appear as though she was simply standing there like everyone else, waiting for something to happen, but in truth, she was far from idle. Nilia was...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 74
74 Ander knew that question would leave Hezzi's lips someday, and that he would have no choice but to answer it when it did. But why did it have to come _now_, when they were all standing on the brink? Why couldn't it have waited just a single day...
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...