Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 15
15 "Too tight for you, murderer?" Garten asked, pulling hard on the knot around Ander's wrist until it started to dig into his flesh like a thousand tiny teeth. "No, that feels just about right, thank you," Ander replied. "Good! Because I predict...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 13
13 "Sarah, where are you?" Kadai whispered, looking left and right, his voice completely drowned out by the babbling of the river. The rain had stopped almost completely now, reduced to individual kisses of ice striking his body at random intervals,...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 12
12 The wind had died down, and the first stars of the night were starting to peek out from the gaps between the thinning clouds, but the rain was still there, falling in a fine mist. It covered the monstrous beech tree in a gleaming blanket, doubling...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 14
14 "And now we come to the issue at hand," Father said. "I told you this terrible tale at great cost to myself because I fear you might not live through this night, and I don't want you to leave this world without knowing the whole truth. But I know...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 19
19 Someone must have been waiting anxiously for the signal to begin, because the moment that word left Kadai's lips, a rock came flying out of the crowd and narrowly missed Ander's head. He actually felt the wind generated by its rough edges as it...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 38
38 "Ander?" _Hezzi..._ "Ander!" _Hezzi!?_ Ander looked to the right, then to the left, but there was nothing. Just the wall stretching on for infinity, and a trail of blood to mark the way he had come, haphazardly zigzagging all over the place....
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 1
Chapter 3 Life 1 A change comes over the woods at dusk. The birds stop chirping, the rustling of the small animals in the underbrush cease. As the shadows grow long and the infinite golden blades of the setting sun pierce the canopy, all life...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 2
2 Bonfires were a common sight within these walls. They made fires to burn their dead, to make sacrifices to the Cora, to mark the birth of new cubs, but Kadai couldn't remember the last time a fire had grown as large as this. It towered above their...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 5
5 Ander was expecting the inside to be pitch-black after the glare from the bonfire, but the flames still shone through every stitch and seam, even penetrating the thick animal hides with a fuzzy, orange glow. Shadows from the Wolves outside flitted...
Don't Fear the Reaper: Part 3
When the young mare awoke, she saw nothing but white. Not like a bright light, just a very clean and sterile white, all over everything. Trisha lifted her head off of the pillow and...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 9
9 It was a completely different world beneath those branches. The wind didn't cut into him so badly, and the canopy shielded him from much of the rain, but the drops that did make it through were huge and fat, dripping from boughs that creaked and...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 8
8 "No, wait, that's all wrong!" Ander said, his fingers rising to his temples almost automatically. He shook his head from left to right, as if maybe this could make the pieces fit together, because they sure as hell didn't fit right the way Father...