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 175
175 Nilia showed more of a reaction than Banno did. Her eyes went wide and her mouth dropped open. "You're lying..." she breathed, and the Fox simply smiled that smug, self-satisfied little grin, a grin that had no business being on his mouth when...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 174
174 There was something wrong, but Banno couldn't understand what it was. There was something different. He hated this! He had to resort to leaning against the wall just to keep from falling down. It was like that damn crutch all over again. And then...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 173
173 Mateo slammed the crossbow down on its head and shoved his foot into the stirrup, keeping his eye on Ander's demented freak of a brother. The brute's tongue was hanging out, exposing a great gash right through the middle, as if it were trying to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 181
181 She knew this ache. She had felt it only once before, but not nearly as intense as this. It had come from the first Wolf she ever saw, the one with the scars running across his chest in jagged lines. _You_ bitch_! I tried to be_ nice_, and this...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 10 (THE END)
10 "Kiana?" he whispered so softly he could barely hear his own voice. It somehow felt like any kind of noise in this place, in this moment, would be akin to sacrilege. He stepped inside and eased the door shut behind him, wincing at the click of the...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 9
9 Ander was vaguely aware of an awful throbbing in his fingers, but that seemed far away and unimportant. There was something else going on, something so fundamentally wrong it was able to reach him even through the shifting haze of shadows he had...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 8
8 - here!" Ander didn't open the front door so much as he _smashed_ it open and tumbled inside like a lunatic. Rufio and Hezzi were already there. Hezzi was pacing up and down in front of the fireplace, and Rufio was relaxing by the open window,...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 5
5 He could hear it up ahead, the sound of the river. It was so different to the roar of a year ago, the thunderous, roiling crash of muddy brown water sluicing through the earth. This sound reaching his ears now, through the trees and the shifting...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 4
4 Standing in the shade with his hands in pockets, James couldn't help but stare at the mountain for a while. It was so different in the summertime. No armour of frost and snow to cover its sheer peaks. No howling wind tearing through the cliffs. No...