Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 49
49 "You said you knew what you were doing! Look at him!" "Be quiet! You want every Wolf in the village to hear you?" There were voices, loud and booming. And there were smells. He could smell medicine, herbs, dry blood. And there was pain, lots of...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 48
48 "I promise... I won't... let anything... happen..." Luke's words slipped out in haphazard mutterings, falling from his numb lips in-between gasps for breath. It felt like his lungs were both freezing and burning at the same time, but he couldn't...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 47
47 Through that black window, through the shadows and underneath the blankets lay Banno, fast asleep. He could hear the fire outside, but the sound in his dream did not belong to a fire. It belonged to a river. It wasn't a raging, dirty brown serpent...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 46
46 -uuke!" He didn't turn back. He was looking down at his shadow, spread out before him, made spiky by the grass. It pulsated in time with the blaze at his back, jumping and fading, growing dark again. Shadows weren't supposed to be so clear at...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 45
45 "Jitters!!" Valery screamed, the full horror of what was happening before her eyes slamming into her all at once. She was still in her nightclothes, and ordinarily she would have been freezing her tail off on a night like this, but the barn was...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 43
43 "Why hello there, Jitters. Guess who's back." Jitters didn't say anything. Neither did she stomp or snort. Stupid animal must have gone back to sleep. It was dark as a cave in here, but he'd soon fix that. He hobbled over to the giant pile of dry...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 41
41 The wind blew in his face and rippled his fur, working its way against his skin, so bitter cold, stinging his eyes, invading his nostrils. It was just... _cold_. Even the moonlight falling across the grass felt cold. It's been too long since he's...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 40
40 She was so beautiful, lying in the moonlight with her hair flowing across the pillow, pooling around her shoulders like liquid fire. One of her hands was up by her ear, the fingers curled up ever so slightly as if to catch the moonbeams streaming...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 39
39 There were no dreams for Banno. He was too tired to dream. His sleep was just a solid wall of blackness... so peaceful... so tranquil... Until it wasn't. There was something else, too... something touching his leg, crawling, biting, stinging. Some...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 38
38 James was dumbstruck. His tea was still sitting on the tray, still steaming away, but he had forgotten all about it. He simply could not imagine this frail old vixen, this perfectly prim and proper Fox with the folded hands, living almost her...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 37
37 "The weather sure is fine today, isn't it?" Laura said, peeking out the window at all the beautiful buds starting to bloom in her garden. There were marigolds and hyacinths and lilies, but the yellow roses were her favourite by far, like miniature...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 36
36 "- all alone in this giant house?" he asked, stepping inside. "Oh, it's not so bad," she said and closed the door behind him. "How are your children doing? Those poor darlings, I can't even imagine." "They're strong. Amazingly strong. Sometimes I...