Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 69
69 Luke jerked awake, completely smothered in darkness. He covered his mouth and nose, not wanting his panicked breathing to wake his siblings. Perhaps sensing their big brother's distress, Valery nuzzled against him, moaning softly in her sleep, and...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 68
68 There was no light save for the pale glow of the moon. No flicker of orange flames shining through the gaps in the trees, no beacon to guide him. He was sure they would have made a fire by now, but there was nothing, only emptiness. All the colour...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 67
67 Off in the shadows, Dorin was staring at this display of affection, his body and soul completely numb. He was still alive, but he didn't know how to feel about that. Not happy, that's for certain, but not sad, either. There was just this tired...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 66
66 There were eight of them, all lined up, their hands and feet bound tightly. Danado limped down the line, inspecting each of them in turn, the rage in his heart slowly coming to a boil. Seffer was unconscious, with a huge bump growing out of his...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 65
65 The log was half-buried in the snow when he saw it, dead and rotted, almost invisible. If it wasn't for the broken branches sticking out of the top, they would have walked right by it, probably to die. "Why did you stop?" Tim asked. His voice was...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 64
64 There was no dead Wolf sprawled in the snow, no pools of blood, no dead Danado staring up at the night sky with his tongue hanging out and an arrow growing out of his forehead. Seffer's arrow had struck a lumpy, uprooted tree stump with two dead...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 63
63 "You all know your parts?" Dorin asked, and all his men nodded their heads in unison. "Good. Danado may have the positional advantage, but we have the numbers. No matter how good he is with that bow, he can only shoot at one of us at a time....
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 62
62 The rocks were slippery beneath his bare feet, constantly shifting over each other as if consciously trying to trip him up. They pushed painfully against his soles with every step, but he had no idea how long the feeling in his feet would last with...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 60
60 "Look at this, Sai!" Denko said, poking around in the snow up ahead. He was the best tracker they had in this group, so he was leading the way. "Sai!" "I'm coming!" Dorin hated this. He hated it so much. Several times he came so close to just...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 59
59 The first thing he became aware of was the pain. It was always there in his fingers and toes, boring deeper and deeper. It was the first thing he felt when he woke up each morning and it was the last thing he felt as he struggled to get to sleep....
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 58
58 James knew he had been a fool the moment he saw Luke rise up with that axe in hand, and he knew the time for talk (if there ever really was such a thing) was over the moment Banno grabbed his son by the throat. He wasn't there to protect Emily...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 57
57 Luke saw the beast's shadow filling up the golden square of firelight long before he heard the footsteps. It just kept getting bigger and bigger, a shaggy abomination covered in razor spikes and two horns sticking out of the top of its head. It...