Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 6
6 Valery... her name was Valery... Why did he think she had said Vallah? The names were similar, but... Banno pushed the thought away and stuffed the last piece of meat into his mouth. He reached for the pot of water by his side, almost knocked it...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 5
5 "Food? I don't want food!" Banno said, not sure if any of his words were even breaking through the haze. It felt like he was underwater again, but _dirty_ water, stagnant water that's been left to breed mosquitoes in some shady corner of the forest,...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 2
Black hands, in sharp contrast to the rest of her yellow-orange fur. a pretty little thing. a petite little thing. she peeked around the gate, staring at him with an eye so wide it almost seemed to take up half her face.
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 40
40 He'd see it occasionally, leaping through the mist, running through the underbrush, weaving its way between the trees. Sometimes it would stop and wait for him before darting on again. The scratches on its back were completely gone now. They...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 34
Aisa bared her teeth, but quickly covered them again as mellah let loose a growl that would have put even the toughest warriors to shame, made even more frightening by the stark contrast of the tears forming in the corners of her eyes.
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 36
36 Ander thought he would surely black out again, but he didn't. Maybe he was in too much pain to black out, if that even made sense. Lying on the ground, he knew the wound in his chest was bleeding again. The blood was warm, but the morning air was...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 35
35 ...go." Kadai sucked in air between his clenched teeth, this wretched feeling inside caught somewhere between outright anger and irrepressible sorrow. He couldn't tell whether he wanted to embrace his son or punch him in the face. He looked up at...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 41
41 _Enka_. _It wasn't enough. It wasn't nearly enough. There was something missing, something vitally important, but I couldn't figure out what..._ That's what Father had said back in his tent. Before... before everything. Looking at it now, Ander...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 39
39 It felt like Ander had been walking for hours. He didn't know this path, but he could see the tip of the Cora through the gaps in the canopy, a hazy grey tooth pointed at the sun, shining down through the mist like a white hole in the sky. There...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 33
33 The pain was so bad, he only wished for the relief of unconsciousness. As he lay there, with his face against the ground, struggling for every breath, he thought he'd even welcome the peace of death. If only it would take the pain away. "By the...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 42
42 - anaaaaaaah!!" "What!? What is it, Devin!?" "This is stupid!" "_You're_stupid!" Kiana snapped back. Not the cleverest of comebacks, but she was far too fretful to think up anything more original. She hacked away at the thick underbrush, her...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 8
8 - flew past in a grey blur, almost knocking Kadai clean over, and then vanished into the crowd like a mouse into tall grass. "Hezzi, wait!" Kadai screamed after him, but it was no use. Hezzi skirted past awestruck Wolves left and right without even...