Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 39
39 "You expect me to drink this clean? You poured half a bottle in here!" "Half a bottle fer a half-dead idjit, makes perfect sense to me. Now swallow the damn thing 'fore you pass out again!" James regarded the amber liquid sloshing around inside...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 38
38 "Father? You awake? Helloooo? Cooey?" Jon dug his face deeper into the pillow and pretended to be asleep. "I know you're awake, Father. Sleeping Foxes don't try so hard to appear to be sleeping." "Eeeeeergh... warrayawanna?" he mumbled. There...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 37
37 The sun hadn't come up yet, but the eastern horizon already had a reddish tinge to it, like blood mixed with tears. Ander could feel all that time dripping through his fingers, gone forever. He paced the wall, lantern in hand, occasionally...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 36
36 There was a light up ahead, much too low to be a star. Were there even any stars left in the sky? Banno wasn't sure. He looked up, but the sky was black, and black, and black. There was nothing else. Did that mean the stars weren't real anymore?...
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 33
33 "Faster, you lazy slugs!" Dorin shouted. "Hezzi would have circled the village three times by now and you've barely finished the first! Move move move!" The small pack of Wolves groaned their displeasure and continued on their way, dragging their...
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 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 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...