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...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 139
139 The pine needles were cold and prickly against her palms, wet with a mixture of ice melt and blood. Her fingers were numb. _Everything_ was numb. "Why?" she whispered to herself for the hundredth time, staring up at the wall of fire. "Why!?" She...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 58
58 Kiana really didn't know what to do with herself anymore. Previously, it had felt like there were never enough hours in the day to do everything she wanted, but now they seemed to ooze along like snails, and this grim silence hanging over the house...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 59
59 "Oh, gods... Oh dear, sweet gods..." Vicky had gone to the window to close the curtains when the snow started to come down heavy, but now her hand was frozen on the cheap fabric. Her own reflection stared back at her from inside the glass, a pale...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 94
94 Everything was black and cold and heavy. She did not know where she was or how she came here, only that it wasn't wrong for her to be here. It was right. It was what she deserved. _Cold-hearted bitch!_ She used to have sunshine. She remembered it...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 93
93 "Nilia, I'm - Oof! I'm okay I - Oof! I swear!" Mateo was cold, he was hungry, he was tired, he was fairly certain that Nilia had cracked at least four of his ribs during her overly enthusiastic hug (even the non-enthusiastic ones were no laughing...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 131
131 "By the Cora, what -" The curmudgeon with the splinted leg's eyes had gone wide and he was pointing at the wall with a scabbed finger. Layla twisted around, still holding Tio close just in case the crazies were throwing stuff again, but the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 130
130 This was hell. Layla could barely hear herself think over all the noise. Shouting and screaming. Vicious snarls. Bloodcurdling howls of pain. Animalistic grunts. The crying of a small child. She was just outside the medical tent, if you could...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 138
138 He landed on the other side of the wall in a surge of smoke and fire. Blood dribbled from between his scorched bandages and flowed across the snowy ground. The pain was so bad he couldn't even see. The whole world was just a blinding flash of...
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...