Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 151
151 The flames had grown too high to even think about climbing over the top (not unless she wanted to char the meat right off her bones), so she threw herself down onto her stomach and pressed her cheek flat against the ground. Thank the gods the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 150
150 With every gasp of air, she inhaled a lungful of bittersweet smoke, laced with the smell of burning leaves and something far more unpleasant, something almost profane: the stench of scorched fur and broiling meat. She could hear screams of pain...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 149
149 "Get up! Get the hell up!" The world came back in fits and starts; little pieces of sensory input that didn't make a whole lot of sense at first, conflicting messages that made her wonder if anything was real or if she was back in that horrid...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 148
148 There was light all around her, but not a good kind of light. Not a comforting light. This light was heavy, runny, almost like melted cheese, dripping down the walls of this place in thick, goopy strands. Her head hurt. Bethany raised a hand to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 147
147 There were feelings, but they were all dulled, muffled, as if wrapped in cloth... _No, this isn't a cloth. It's something else. Something warm and fluffy._ For a moment it felt like she was about to break through whatever thin membrane was...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 146
146 Dorin kept putting one foot in front of the other. Even though it felt like he would collapse at any second, even though it felt like his legs would buckle, even though his muscles were screaming, even though there was blood dripping down his...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 145
145 The breath whistled in and out of Dorin's chest as he limped across the battlefield, splashing through puddles of blood and snowmelt. Serrated walls of fire had appeared like scars upon his path, casting an otherworldly glow upon the earth. This...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 144
144 She could feel the vibrations of their footfalls travelling through the ground beneath her knees, could feel them going inside her chest and shaking her very heart. The pain in her back was steadily getting worse, and her swollen lips stung with...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 143
143 Layla had a split-second view of Hokin's maw before a heavy branch, its top half encrusted with a network of red-hot glowing cracks and crowned in flame, whispered just above the tips of her ears and caught him right between his gaping jaws,...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 142
142 Tio could actually feel the heat baking off of her. It wasn't the fire, and it wasn't the blood, it was her, _just her_, as if her anger had come alive. "Layla-Kai?" He looked up, seeing for the first time just what she was changing into, what...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 141
141 Layla ran full tilt into what felt like a fuzzy brick wall, hard enough to rebound and land on her tail with a painful thump. She looked up at the creature looming over her, feeling smaller than small, feeling like a mouse caught between the claws...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 140
140 It started with the sound. The roar of the burning tree coming down on top of them. Thick, black branches cloaked in flame slammed into her back, but before she met the ground, before she even allowed herself to feel the pain, she pulled Tio in...