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
Every blow and bite and cut and scratch and torturous mutilation stood out in stark contrast against the backdrop of his hazy, half-conscious mind, and he gasped for breath, too hurt to even scream properly. "whoa, don't scare me like that!"
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 161
161 Banno felt... wrong. He did not understand why he felt this way. The 'why' of it was too much for him to grasp. Even the wrongness of it, the reason for all these feelings, was something he was barely aware of. It was a deep thing. A low thing....
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 160
The veins were swelling up, standing out in stark contrast against the white. _he can't do it_, james thought, incredulous, hardly daring to believe it. _he doesn't have enough air to fight back. i'm going to murder this bastard.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 159
159 Banno stopped, his jaw still open wide, his single eye fixed on the serrated blade. It was only a fraction of a moment, but in it, James saw something that would stay with him for the rest of his life. The flat of the blade caught the fireplace...