Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 98
98 Death. Everywhere around her. She could smell it, taste it, hear it, feel it, but most of all, she could _see_ it, dancing in front of her eyes as a thick, black line. It was like a serpent without head or tail, just an endless band of darkness...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 70
70 Shadows upon shadows, birthing and dying inside the absolute blackness of the Cora's pass, their lives bookended by millions upon millions of flakes of snow. Ander stared into this chaotic mess, feeling like the pass was staring right back....
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 69
Bethany untied the eyelets (wrenched them loose was more like it) and the wind nearly ripped the flaps clean out of her grasping fingers.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 73
73 - stop it!!" There was a time Hezzi would have been horrified to have so many eyes on him again. It was always followed by some terrible event. _Always_. But now he wasn't even aware of their empty stares, their blood-crazed eyes. He had grabbed...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 72
She had tried so hard to get rid of it, to wash it clean, to save him from a life of pain and misery, and yet... "no!" sarah shouted, thrashing and flailing, not even sure what she was trying to escape from; her son's arms, or her own demons.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 71
71 Dorin's eyes darted from the walls of stone on their flanks to the wall of wood barring the way. Hundreds and hundreds of Foxes were lining the top, each of them with a bow in hand and a quiver of arrows over their shoulder. _We're going to die...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 132
132 Layla had just finished checking Dorin's head - _Okay, he's going to need a looooot of stitches before this night is through._ - when Mother came rushing over, swinging her big black bag by her side. Her clothes were completely shredded. Her...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 127
127 This smell. Banno knew this smell. He's smelt it before. Not quite like this, though. This was a bit different, which was why it had taken him so long to figure it out, but now that he was here, breathing it in, there was no mistake. Few knew...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 77
77 The sound of her laughter came flooding back from the darkest corners of Sorrin's mind, unlocking memories he had spent many sleepless nights sealing away with his tears. _Higher, Daddy! Higher!_ The weight of her tiny body in his arms, the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 76
76 Just like Nilia, Banno appeared to be at a standstill, but in reality he was concentrating incredibly hard. His focus, however, was not aimed at the Wolves or the Foxes (he couldn't care less about what might be going on in whatever passed for a...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 75
75 Nilia did not move. She did not speak. She did not act in any way. To an outsider, it would appear as though she was simply standing there like everyone else, waiting for something to happen, but in truth, she was far from idle. Nilia was...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 74
74 Ander knew that question would leave Hezzi's lips someday, and that he would have no choice but to answer it when it did. But why did it have to come _now_, when they were all standing on the brink? Why couldn't it have waited just a single day...