Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 92

92 Kiana finally made it all the way up to those horrible wooden spikes. Save for the splash of snow that had exploded over the top of the wall, they had been spared the brunt of the avalanche, but she still felt cold and drained. Just making it over...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 91

91 - out of the snow and back into the waking world, where pain and death were more than mere phantoms. Snow tumbled down his face and slid off his back. He was quite possibly colder than he had ever been in his entire life, but Kiana's lips were warm...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 90

90 He knew this darkness. He knew this cold. He had been here before, but when? He couldn't remember... "Your blood is a lie." That voice was right behind him. He could feel the warmth of its breath on his neck, smell the fetid stench of blood and...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 89

89 Devin had started to think that something must have gone horribly, disastrously wrong, but then the deep, agonal sound of the ram's horn finally echoed through the pass, bouncing from cliff to cliff and crag to crag, until it sounded like there...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 88

88 The ground trembled beneath his feet, but Dorin didn't care. They swarmed across the snow, weaving between jutting pieces of rock and dead branches like water breaking upon a riverbank, but Dorin didn't care. Their roar was like the voice of death...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 87

87 The entire pass just... _exploded_. Ander stood frozen, watching in horror as a thousand blood-crazed Wolves came storming down the pass, waving spears and axes in the air, screaming and roaring, slobber flying from their teeth. They were like a...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 85

85 The world had long since stopped making sense in Ander's eyes. It was no longer a world of matter, of substance, of air and earth and water, or even of flesh and spirit, but of voices and choices, all mixing together, all coalescing into a vortex...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 84

84 Hezzi didn't understand what was going on. He had prepared himself for what was about to happen, or at least, he thought he had. He had seen this very night so many times in his dreams, ever since Ander first came to him and explained what he...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 83

83 Aisa could barely believe her ears. Miracle after miracle, and still this child could deliver. To actually beg for the life of the miserable she-wolf who had caused her nothing but pain and hardship her entire life... Dorin sidled up next to her...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 82

82 _What?_ Aisa couldn't have heard that right. The wind in this place was so loud it must have drowned out her true meaning, because she couldn't have said what she thought she just said. It was impossible. _I hate you._ Yes, that must have been...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 81

81 The distance to that wall couldn't have been more than a few strides, but it felt much farther to Renna. The planks creaked beneath her feet with every step, and a multitude of eyes, both Wolf and Fox, followed her slow progress in dead...

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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...

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