Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 2
2 Bonfires were a common sight within these walls. They made fires to burn their dead, to make sacrifices to the Cora, to mark the birth of new cubs, but Kadai couldn't remember the last time a fire had grown as large as this. It towered above their...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 1
Chapter 3 Life 1 A change comes over the woods at dusk. The birds stop chirping, the rustling of the small animals in the underbrush cease. As the shadows grow long and the infinite golden blades of the setting sun pierce the canopy, all life...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 50
He held his hand up to his face and, contrasted against the pure white of everything beyond, it looked like a dark horror, stained with years' worth of blood.
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
I didn't -_ tim's tears cut clean lines through the soot and grime on his face, making the rest of him look even dirtier by contrast. dad had gotten down on one knee and placed his hand on tim's head. _hey hey hey, when did i ever say it was your fault?
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
" * * * everybody told me today: "contrast, you work too hard! take some time off! it's your birthday, ffs!!" to which i replied, "no! my people need me! must... write... ander..." i think i passed out after that, but here's today's update anyway!
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...