Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 47
47 "Line them up. Just like that, yeah." "Are we really going to...?" "What?" "Nothing." Dorin's face felt hot on the inside, but freezing cold on the outside. He was wet and shivering. He didn't understand what was going on. Why was everything...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 48
48 "No..." It was all Dorin could think to say. From this angle, the Pit was no more than a crumbling hole in the ground, bordered by dozens upon dozens of frosted chains feeding into the blackness like a metallic spider's web, but he knew what was...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 29
29 The fire was always with her now, and that was exactly the way she saw it in her mind; a giant, red fire, burning her from the inside out. She could feel it in her throat, in her elbows and knees, even on her tongue. It hurt to move. It hurt to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 28
28 Nilia gasped and jerked her hands away, her tears still flowing, dripping onto his silent face and running down his cheeks. Again. She had done it again. She had killed him... She had murdered him with her own hands... her own _tears_... "No......
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 31
31 Nilia was surprised by how easily those memories came flooding back. She had thought them buried under layers of stone, grown thick and strong over the years. Had she really done such a poor job of it? The way they were now, so fresh and painful,...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 30
30 She felt hot and sweaty, but she couldn't stop shivering. Pain flared up in her joints at the slightest movement. She was so tired, and yet she couldn't fall asleep, no matter how hard she tried. What little sleep she did get was broken by painful...
Ander - Part 1: Subchapter 28
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Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 6
6 Valery... her name was Valery... Why did he think she had said Vallah? The names were similar, but... Banno pushed the thought away and stuffed the last piece of meat into his mouth. He reached for the pot of water by his side, almost knocked it...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 2
2 - gasped for breath, his remaining eye open and staring. His first instinct was to get up, to get moving, to lash out, but he felt... tired... so tired... like he could barely move his arms. Banno closed his eye and took a long, slow breath,...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 35
35 ...go." Kadai sucked in air between his clenched teeth, this wretched feeling inside caught somewhere between outright anger and irrepressible sorrow. He couldn't tell whether he wanted to embrace his son or punch him in the face. He looked up at...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 39
39 It felt like Ander had been walking for hours. He didn't know this path, but he could see the tip of the Cora through the gaps in the canopy, a hazy grey tooth pointed at the sun, shining down through the mist like a white hole in the sky. There...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 33
33 The pain was so bad, he only wished for the relief of unconsciousness. As he lay there, with his face against the ground, struggling for every breath, he thought he'd even welcome the peace of death. If only it would take the pain away. "By the...