Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 29
29 Most of these tents had already been ransacked. Bit of an extreme choice of words, perhaps, but fairly accurate. They were stripped completely bare and for some reason reminded Kiana of barren market stalls at midnight; just a line of placeholders,...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 28
28 _I have to help, I_ know _I can help..._ It was beginning to turn into a kind of obsession. Kiana knew this perfectly well, but she couldn't let it go, and neither could she turn back. She had to finish this. There was simply no other way. The...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 27
27 Kiana didn't look it, but she was reeling on the inside. Too much had happened in too short a time. The horror in the pass, Banno, Shekka, Hezzi... each one was enough to shatter her heart all by themselves and leave her a blubbering infirm, but...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 26
26 She didn't think it would be this hard. The pathway stretched before her, bordered on both sides by rows of tents, turning it into an endless hallway. The ceiling was a black, starless sky and the walls were broken by innumerable gaps and...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 25
25 "Kiana!" She jumped at the sound of her own name (all these 'jumps' couldn't possibly be good for her heart) and looked around. Mother was dabbing an alcohol-soaked ball of cotton against the forehead of a wincing Wolf with one hand while...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 24
24 The firewood was stacked so high in Kiana's arms that she had to lean to the side just to see where she was going. The splintery edges snagged at her dress and dug painfully into her aching arms, but she didn't mind. There was a lot of work to be...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 23
23 Banno did not feel any pain. He did not feel any cold. He did not feel anything at all except for a happiness so powerful it threatened to burst right out of him. The wind blew against his face, but he didn't feel it. The snow clumped together...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 22
22 They kept following the trail until they reached a dead tree, fallen across the path. There was a splash of blood on the rotting bark, dried into a dark stain. Ander stepped on top of the dead hunk of wood, but just as he was about to drop down on...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 21
21 A single Wolf mired in bloodlust was bad enough, they most certainly did not need two. "Sorrin!" Ander called as loud as he dared, chasing after the lumbering brute. "Wait, damn it!" Paying him no heed, Sorrin blundered through the trees,...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 20
20 Torjo didn't understand anything anymore. He didn't understand why he was still alive. He didn't understand the blanket draped around his shoulders. He didn't understand the fire warming his hands. And most of all, he didn't understand the strange...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 19
19 To his right, the pass yawned wide like the mouth of a terrible beast, still hungry even after all the lives that had been lost inside its maw. The tracks were all but gone, buried beneath a fresh layer of snow, but the drops of blood were still...
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 18
18 Jonah rattled off the story in less than a minute. As terrible as it was, there really wasn't all that much to tell. Many good Foxes dead, Foxes who had tried to help, and a crazy Wolf, wandering through the woods this very moment, headed...