Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 154
154 A stillness spread through the crowd. It lasted for only a moment, but in that moment, there were no more screams in the distance. No shouts. No roars. No sounds of teeth sawing through flesh or arrows piercing skin. There was only the crackle of...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 153
153 Sarah felt as if some horrible, sadistic demon had cut her open from throat to groin and scooped out all her insides, bones and all, leaving her completely hollow, numb to all sensations except pain. She knew she was crying, but she couldn't feel...
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...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 164
164 There was something wrong, she knew that right away. Why did she feel so cold? Was the window open? She tried to paw it shut from the comfort of her bed like she had done on countless nippy mornings before, but something was holding her back. The...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 163
163 She was waiting for him in the snow. The red, red snow... pulsating, throbbing like a heartbeat, dark and light... "Banno, I'm cold..." she said, holding out her arms. The sun was shining through the trees and playing across her face in shifting...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 107
107 "Stop, don't shoot!!" Mateo shouted, nearly giving everyone a heart attack. Jonah certainly felt like his was beating somewhere around his throat now. "By the gods, Mat, what!?" Nick yelled, absolutely furious. He had almost dropped the crossbow...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 106
106 The question hung between them like the mist of their breath, lingering for a moment before being snatched away by the wind. _I couldn't have heard him right. There's no way._ The grip around his chin tightened and now he could feel the tips of...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 105
105 Jonah couldn't move, and that was good. Dean had moved, and now he was dead. Devin had moved, and now he was dead, too. Peter had moved, and guess what? He was just as dead as the others. Rufio and Eric and all their chums had moved, and now all...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 129
129 It was just a haze. The burning in his chest. The deep ache in his side. The cold. The faraway screams. The smell of smoke. None of it could reach him. None of it could get through. His anger was too great. Ander hurried through the woods, bent...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 128
128 There was only so much fear a vixen could endure before it reached a plateau, a place where she simply could not bear any more. Kiana had reached that point when Banno started to lick her stomach, dragging that hot, slimy piece of meat across her...