Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 35
35 "Daddy, am I too heavy?" "No, sweety. You're light as a feather." "Are you sure? I can walk for a while. I don't mind." _Don't let them see. Godsdammit, James, don't you dare let them see..._ "Daddy?" James smiled and kept going, stepping over...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 34
34 Mateo got dressed in the little spotlight shining in from the opening in the ceiling, a task which was much harder than normal because he kept poking his arms through holes in his shirt that weren't really arm holes at all, but the shredded...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 15
15 Banno was smiling. He didn't feel particularly happy - the opposite, in fact - but with a giant gash in the side of his face he couldn't _not_ smile. That was simply the way he was now. He would smile until the moment the world vanished from his...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 14
14 The metaphorical stone she had felt in her stomach a while ago just metaphorically exploded, splattering her metaphorical guts all over the walls. Kiana was speechless, but Renna sure wasn't. "You're going to have a baby, Kiana-Kai?" she twittered...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 13
13 Kiana thought things would have calmed down after the house emptied out a bit, but clearly she was wrong. Hezzi wanted to go outside and have a look around, so naturally Mother was blocking the door, yelling at him to get back in bed before he tore...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 27
27 Mateo lay in the darkness, feeling the fuzziness of the bear pelt around his naked body, and stared up at the small circle of starlight above his head, playing the same thought over and over in his head, and that thought was: "_I'm_the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 26
26 Ander was leaning against the door, covering his eyes with his forearm. He's been standing in complete silence like that for a few minutes now, but that was okay with Kiana. She could do with a few minutes herself. She slowly ran her hands across...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 21
21 He froze. Actually, they both did. Neither of them moved a muscle. Neither of them looked away or even blinked. If it weren't for the crackling of the fire and the muffled sounds of the party, it would have been easy to think that time itself had...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 20
20 "I'll get the fire going." "Okay." Kiana sat down on the big bench in front of Ander's fireplace and looked down at her knees. The sounds of the party outside, of Foxes talking and falling over and laughing, soon faded into the background, until...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 16
16 Nilia was tired, probably more tired than she's ever been in her entire life. And cold. Nightfall had taken the chilly breeze and given it a good set of proper teeth, but that didn't matter. She felt good. Better than good. Not even this...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 23
23 _I really,_ really _shouldn't have said that_... Mateo thought to himself, rooted in place as Ander's entire demeanour shifted before his eyes. No problems reading the body language here. It was all in the way his shoulders hunched up and his head...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 22
22 "Mateo!" Ander dropped her to her feet and spun around, and for a moment all four of them stared at each other, frozen in place like a bunch of children playing musical statues. The party was still going on outside. She could see the twins over...