Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 89
89 Devin had started to think that something must have gone horribly, disastrously wrong, but then the deep, agonal sound of the ram's horn finally echoed through the pass, bouncing from cliff to cliff and crag to crag, until it sounded like there...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 88
88 The ground trembled beneath his feet, but Dorin didn't care. They swarmed across the snow, weaving between jutting pieces of rock and dead branches like water breaking upon a riverbank, but Dorin didn't care. Their roar was like the voice of death...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 87
87 The entire pass just... _exploded_. Ander stood frozen, watching in horror as a thousand blood-crazed Wolves came storming down the pass, waving spears and axes in the air, screaming and roaring, slobber flying from their teeth. They were like a...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 85
85 The world had long since stopped making sense in Ander's eyes. It was no longer a world of matter, of substance, of air and earth and water, or even of flesh and spirit, but of voices and choices, all mixing together, all coalescing into a vortex...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 84
84 Hezzi didn't understand what was going on. He had prepared himself for what was about to happen, or at least, he thought he had. He had seen this very night so many times in his dreams, ever since Ander first came to him and explained what he...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 83
83 Aisa could barely believe her ears. Miracle after miracle, and still this child could deliver. To actually beg for the life of the miserable she-wolf who had caused her nothing but pain and hardship her entire life... Dorin sidled up next to her...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 82
82 _What?_ Aisa couldn't have heard that right. The wind in this place was so loud it must have drowned out her true meaning, because she couldn't have said what she thought she just said. It was impossible. _I hate you._ Yes, that must have been...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 81
81 The distance to that wall couldn't have been more than a few strides, but it felt much farther to Renna. The planks creaked beneath her feet with every step, and a multitude of eyes, both Wolf and Fox, followed her slow progress in dead...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 80
80 - quiet darkness. This was what she should have gotten from the start. It was what she deserved. Nothing but cold against her skin and the dull, mindless rumble of the wind. Someone grabbed her by the wrists and pulled her hands away from her...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 79
79 It wouldn't be long now. Dorin didn't know how he knew this, but he could sense it coming. It was like that flash of instinct right before a deer comes barrelling through the woods, and you somehow already have an arrow nocked and ready, like you...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 78
78 Ordinarily Danado would have felt very self-conscious and uncomfortable under these circumstances. Bethany was sitting on a stool near the foot of the bed, carefully treating his toes with a smelly brown liquid that stung like fire. Layla was doing...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 77
77 The sound of her laughter came flooding back from the darkest corners of Sorrin's mind, unlocking memories he had spent many sleepless nights sealing away with his tears. _Higher, Daddy! Higher!_ The weight of her tiny body in his arms, the...