Sins of Our Elders: Chapter 8
Amethyst knew they should have taken separate cars. Why she agreed to let him drive was a reasoning only the Amethyst of then knew. Pity? An extra chance? Either way they fell flat as the dog and vole sat awkwardly in the front seat of his rental while...
Righting Your Wrongs (Chapter 8)
**Challenge** **Part: 1** "What are you doing?" "What does it look like I'm doing? I want to know just as much as you do what's going on in there!" "You can't just go into Syne and Luyo's room like it's yours. I don't know if I've even entered...
Tears - Under the Surface Chapter 8
**Chapter Eight** **Tears** Stahl surprised himself by how well he remembered the path back to the Koena ruins, and it wasn't a long swim around the island to the underwater cave that gave access to the elevator. By the time he dove under the...
Anima: The Broken Wing Chapter 8
#8 of anima: the broken wing chapter 8 after over a year separated, lyall has met my mom kept her arms around me as one of her hands slowly stroked my head. she brought her face to the back of my neck, and i could feel her breathing into my feathers.
Indigo Nights- Chapter 8: Drowned
One year later. Axton Manor, December 2014. Seven months before the end of everything. Kyran is numb and drowning. He's felt immobile from feelings lingering since he lost Zephyr nearly two years ago, and the gravity of his misery descends...
North and South Chapter 8: Southbound
The silence between Luke and Romulus had long carried into the zone of uncomfortable as they stared each other down, separated only by the table between them. Luke was still breathing hard, trying to hold himself back, while Romulus remained stoic and...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 9
9 Ander was vaguely aware of an awful throbbing in his fingers, but that seemed far away and unimportant. There was something else going on, something so fundamentally wrong it was able to reach him even through the shifting haze of shadows he had...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 8
8 - here!" Ander didn't open the front door so much as he _smashed_ it open and tumbled inside like a lunatic. Salem and Hezzi were already there. Hezzi was pacing up and down in front of the fireplace, and Salem was relaxing by the open window,...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 7
7 "Haah... Heeaargh!" Ander stopped at the sound of that voice. Or at least, he _thought_ it was a voice. It had an odd, wheezy sort of quality he didn't like, similar to an animal slowly dying of thirst. He squinted into the darkness. The moon was...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 5
5 He could hear it up ahead, the sound of the river. It was so different to the roar of a year ago, the thunderous, roiling crash of muddy brown water sluicing through the earth. This sound reaching his ears now, through the trees and the shifting...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 4
4 Standing in the shade with his hands in pockets, James couldn't help but stare at the mountain for a while. It was so different in the summertime. No armour of frost and snow to cover its sheer peaks. No howling wind tearing through the cliffs. No...
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 3
3 "Now that was some odd weather," James said, starry-eyed from the memory of those two rushing out of the chapel, not unlike the way he had rushed outside with Emily on their wedding day. The breeze whispered through the sycamore and a smattering of...