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
17 Danado wasn't in the tent the Foxes had built for him. He was sitting with his back propped up against the big old oak tree growing behind Ander's house. He had slipped away quietly while everyone was busy talking to Sorrin and the others, asking...
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...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 14
14 The metaphorical stone she had felt in her stomach a while ago just metaphorically exploded, splattering her metaphorical guts all over the walls. Kiana was speechless, but Renna sure wasn't. "You're going to have a baby, Kiana-Kai?" she twittered...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 13
13 Kiana thought things would have calmed down after the house emptied out a bit, but clearly she was wrong. Hezzi wanted to go outside and have a look around, so naturally Mother was blocking the door, yelling at him to get back in bed before he tore...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 11
11 This was so exciting. Terrible, yes, but exciting nonetheless. Layla knew she should be acting a bit more reserved, but there were so many butterflies fluttering around in her stomach she could barely keep a straight face. Her life had gone from...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 10
10 Andrew stopped halfway down the path towards the town hall. "Sarah, is there something wrong?" he asked, looking back over his shoulder. "I just realized how terribly irresponsible it was of me to drop those pieces of glass in the snow. Why, any...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 9
9 The road was eerily quiet. Normally it would be bustling with Foxes, but not now. Almost everyone was inside the town hall, and the only evidence that they had ever existed was the mashup of footprints leading to the entrance, and the only sounds to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 8
8 She was so convinced that everything would fall apart that she didn't immediately understand the question. She was so entrenched in the certainty that she would only end up killing everyone she loved that even the thinnest glimmer of hope seemed...