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...
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 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...
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 18
18 Ander thought he would've gotten used to this feeling by now, this sensation that he was living in two worlds at the same time. He was both Wolf and Fox. He was both a son of Shekka and a son of Sarah. He was both a brother of Hezzi and a brother...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 17
This was exactly what he had wished for from the depths of his loneliness, to strike back, to defend himself, to make her smile go away, to make her just as miserable as he was, because it was the contrast of her happiness that shone such a glaring beam of
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 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...