Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 32
32 "I don't remember much after that," Nilia admitted, not even sure why she was still talking. "It doesn't matter anyway. Story's over." She made to push Mateo away, but hesitated. She had worked so hard to get the damn story out, had gone through...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 31
31 Nilia was surprised by how easily those memories came flooding back. She had thought them buried under layers of stone, grown thick and strong over the years. Had she really done such a poor job of it? The way they were now, so fresh and painful,...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 30
30 She felt hot and sweaty, but she couldn't stop shivering. Pain flared up in her joints at the slightest movement. She was so tired, and yet she couldn't fall asleep, no matter how hard she tried. What little sleep she did get was broken by painful...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 29
29 The fire was always with her now, and that was exactly the way she saw it in her mind; a giant, red fire, burning her from the inside out. She could feel it in her throat, in her elbows and knees, even on her tongue. It hurt to move. It hurt to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 28
28 Nilia gasped and jerked her hands away, her tears still flowing, dripping onto his silent face and running down his cheeks. Again. She had done it again. She had killed him... She had murdered him with her own hands... her own _tears_... "No......
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 27
27 Mateo lay in the darkness, feeling the fuzziness of the bear pelt around his naked body, and stared up at the small circle of starlight above his head, playing the same thought over and over in his head, and that thought was: "_I'm_the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 26
26 Ander was leaning against the door, covering his eyes with his forearm. He's been standing in complete silence like that for a few minutes now, but that was okay with Kiana. She could do with a few minutes herself. She slowly ran her hands across...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 25
25 "No, Nilia, wait, seriously, I'm sorry, okay? I'm sorry I said those things! I'm sorry I called you a crazy bitch!" he prattled on as she pushed him through the entrance. Never before has a cosy little tent like this been more horrific, with...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 24
24 Someone grabbed him from behind, _by the hair_. It was such an unexpected sensation it took a moment for him to register that he was still standing and not writhing on the ground in excruciating pain with his face oozing off his shattered...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 23
23 _I really,_ really _shouldn't have said that_... Mateo thought to himself, rooted in place as Ander's entire demeanour shifted before his eyes. No problems reading the body language here. It was all in the way his shoulders hunched up and his head...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 22
22 "Mateo!" Ander dropped her to her feet and spun around, and for a moment all four of them stared at each other, frozen in place like a bunch of children playing musical statues. The party was still going on outside. She could see the twins over...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 21
21 He froze. Actually, they both did. Neither of them moved a muscle. Neither of them looked away or even blinked. If it weren't for the crackling of the fire and the muffled sounds of the party, it would have been easy to think that time itself had...