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 135
135 Nilia was deep in thought, walking down that narrow path that would lead her back outside, back into the frozen hell of blood and snow. Back into the insane world of comrade turned enemy turned mindless animal. She had barely made it through the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 134
134 Nilia was being selfish. She knew this, but at the same time she couldn't turn away from it. She couldn't turn away from _him_. She had fought through hell to reach this place. She had done everything Ander had asked of her. Was it really such a...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 133
133 _Dan was right. You are running._ Nilia tried to still the voice inside her head. It used to be so simple, but ever since she met Mateo it was becoming increasingly hard to do, and this place wasn't making it any easier. The tent was filled to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 138
138 He landed on the other side of the wall in a surge of smoke and fire. Blood dribbled from between his scorched bandages and flowed across the snowy ground. The pain was so bad he couldn't even see. The whole world was just a blinding flash of...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 137
137 Danado very nearly collapsed before he could take even a single step. Every second standing up was akin to torture. Already the sweat was standing out on his forehead, horribly cold against the chilling winds. The ground swayed beneath his...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 136
136 Danado felt isolated, cut off, separate from everything happening around him, trapped inside his own bubble of space just outside the medical tent, unable to move, unable to get up, unable to do anything but sit here, watching Hell itself...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 168
168 Everything was black. There was no ache in his lungs and no stabbing, throbbing pain in his eye or his ankle. There were no freezing gusts of wind blowing across his body or sickly warm tendrils of blood snaking through his fur. Everything was...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 167
167 Ander screamed. He screamed until it felt like his throat would tear itself apart. "You like that, huh? Not so nice is it!?" The pain was all-encompassing. For those first few moments, nothing else existed. There was no light, no sound, no...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 166
166 The door to the mill stood wide open, and as the wind rushed by, it flowed over the darkness inside and produced a low and constant moan, a hollow mouth with no need to stop for breath - a deep, black maw that reeked of his brother's...