Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 173
173 Mateo slammed the crossbow down on its head and shoved his foot into the stirrup, keeping his eye on Ander's demented freak of a brother. The brute's tongue was hanging out, exposing a great gash right through the middle, as if it were trying to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 172
172 Mateo has lived pretty much his entire life feeling at least some amount of curmudgeonly anger. You could almost say it was his default state. There was always something to be slightly grumpy about. A pebble in your shoe, for instance. Or an...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 171
171 Denko looked straight up at the jet black sky, at the lonely flakes of snow drifting down from above. One there... Two there... materializing out of the dark, flowing with the wind in lazy, serpentine coils. He could hardly believe it, but the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 170
170 There was a lot to take in in a very short amount of time. Nilia kept her eyes trained on Banno, a hulking shadow. There was something unnerving about the way he moved. Maybe because his fur was also black, it was difficult to tell where he ended...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 169
169 Ander's mind reeled. He couldn't have heard her right, he just couldn't have. He had stared death in the face several times before tonight. It was something he understood, perhaps not completely - For who but the dead could ever fully understand...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 10
10 Andrew stopped halfway down the path towards the town hall. "Sarah, is there something wrong?" he asked, looking back over his shoulder. "I just realised how terribly irresponsible it was of me to drop those pieces of glass in the snow. Why, any...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 9
._ ander looked to the mountain, covered in blinding snow and contrasting shreds of black, towering above all creation like a set of monstrous teeth biting into the sky itself.
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 8
8 She was so convinced that everything would fall apart that she didn't immediately understand the question. She was so entrenched in the certainty that she would only end up killing everyone she loved that even the thinnest glimmer of hope seemed...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 7
7 "Yes!" The identical brothers jumped into the air, their arms hooked together. "Legs for days! Legs for days!" Nilia had no idea what that expression meant or who it was aimed at, and she was feeling far too numb to figure it out anyway. There was...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 6
6 Bileam looked her right in the eye and said, "You must be touched in the head." The crowd didn't seem all too eager, either. Nilia understood that these were not a warrior people, but after spending her entire life surrounded by those who valued...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 5
5 The 'Town Hall' (as Salem had called it) was a grand building made of stone. Nilia estimated it was probably big enough to fit at least three dozen of the tents back home, but even so, it was absolutely packed. The whispers of a thousand nervous...
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 4
4 This hollow construction was different from what it had been a few minutes ago. The sunshine had been strangled down to slits, slowly creeping along the floor in thin white lines, barely able to shine through the cloth coverings, and the candles...