Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 42
42 -our... SOUR!! Arghek!" Mateo's eyes flew open and the gutrot hit him a split second later, making him groan. He burped, felt a little better, and sank deeper into bed. Was this his bed? Was this his room? He blinked his eyes and looked around,...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 36
36 Things were different now. Dorin didn't think it would happen so quickly, but he noticed the signs wherever he went. No one raised their hands in greeting or shouted his name from across the village centre. No one waved him over to come look at the...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 53
53 At a run, it was only a few seconds to the kitchen, one more to pull open the top drawer and grab the big knife, a few seconds more to run back, but those few seconds away from his sister felt to Luke like grains of sand falling through an...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 52
52 It was an ugly knife. Nothing special about it. Just a plain hunk of wood and a piece of metal sticking out of the end, but Dorin couldn't stop staring at it. It was just... "Wrong..." he whispered to absolutely no one. "Wrong, wrong,...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 51
51 It was the scream of his daughter that awoke James from a terrible nightmare of bleeding roses, pulling him back into a world far, far worse than anything his tired mind could dream up, because in this world, all the horrors were frightfully...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 50
50 "You do realise if either of those boys looks in the wrong direction at the wrong time, this entire idea of yours is bust, right?" Sorrin whispered. They were standing just outside the North gate, and he was slightly out of breath from the long...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 63
63 "You all know your parts?" Dorin asked, and all his men nodded their heads in unison. "Good. Danado may have the positional advantage, but we have the numbers. No matter how good he is with that bow, he can only shoot at one of us at a time....
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 46
46 "Hyk-" Nilia tightened her grip around Ivio's throat, pulling back on her wrist so that her bicep cut off his windpipe completely. "Go to sleep, Ivio." "Eeergeghegheeeg!" He writhed beneath the weight of her body and clawed at her arm, scratching...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 78
78 Something grabbed him around the neck and jerked him back. Dorin screamed and, although he would never admit it to anyone, for a second he thought it was Lana's arm around his throat, risen from the dead to exact her revenge personally. He fell...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 72
72 There was no pain, no cold, no sadness. There was only peace and the smell of something sweet, carried by a warm, summer breeze. James opened his eyes. The sky was blue, but not just any blue. It was the most beautiful shade of blue he had ever...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 71
71 Impossible. There was no way it could be true, and yet there was no mistaking that voice. It was the same one he had listened to his entire life, telling him to clean his room and feed the chickens and haul water from the well, the same voice that...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 38
It was so tiny, but it contrasted greatly against her golden fur. it spread outwards, growing bigger and bigger, but if she felt any pain she did not show it.