Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 69
69 bethany kept throwing suspicious glances at that empty bed in the corner, almost daring it to show her that delusion again, the one with rufio and all the... all the stuff that wasn't real.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 109
Past rufio and his broken pipe. past bethany. past nilia and sarah and michael. past mateo, looking forlornly at the crossbow hanging from his bedpost. past mellah, holding sorrin as if she would never let go.
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 2
They hugged, and when it was over rufio sat down next to bethany, who already had a handkerchief ready and waiting for him. he took it with gratitude and blew his nose.
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 40
rufio probably knows already, and layla _definitely_ knows. and after everything she's done for me, i hate sneaking around behind her back like this. it feels... i don't know. cowardly." kiana suddenly stepped away from him. "i am not a coward, ander."
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 135
One jumped right through the wall of flames, his fur singed almost all the way down to the skin, smoking just like rufio's little wooden contraption.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 168
"i'm up on the roof with rufio and michael, adding on to the house. occasionally you womenfolk bark out orders and criticisms, and we pretend to be offended.
Ander - Part 2: Subchapter 18
She'd never have gone to rufio and bethany's house to say her own silent goodbye, watching as ander carefully made his way through the crowd, standing head and shoulders above everyone else.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 59
Valley, families just like this one, huddled in fear behind locked doors, and i thought a nice way to do that would be through these two, the mother and child who were the first to acknowledge ander when he first set foot outside the sanctuary of rufio
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 9
"i won't let anything happen to kiana, or bethany, or rufio, or layla, or michael, or hezzi, or renna, or nilia, or danado, or sorrin, or mellah. i promise i won't let anything happen to anyone. hell, even mateo, if he doesn't bitch about it later..."
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 2
"oh stop it, rufio!" mother giggled. "it's much too early for such flattery." "a true heroine you are..." father stealthily waved his hand behind his back - _shoo! shoo!_ - and kiana didn't need telling twice.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 107
rufio and eric were there, too, dragging william along despite him begging for them to stop. the tips of his boots dragged divots in the snow.
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 21
Were kiana and bethany and rufio and layla waiting for him to wake up? that was a nice thought, but it didn't make sense. banno was dead. all that already happened. it was over... but where was he now?