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
72 It was as if that dead voice had jumped from his head and into the real world. It was flesh and blood, horribly real, and yet Ander still could not accept it. He kept seeing that arrow puncturing the thin membrane of Banno's eye, erupting into a...
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...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 135
135 Nilia was deep in thought, walking down that narrow path that would lead her back outside, back into the frozen hell of blood and snow. Back into the insane world of comrade turned enemy turned mindless animal. She had barely made it through the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 134
134 Nilia was being selfish. She knew this, but at the same time she couldn't turn away from it. She couldn't turn away from _him_. She had fought through hell to reach this place. She had done everything Ander had asked of her. Was it really such a...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 137
137 Danado very nearly collapsed before he could take even a single step. Every second standing up was akin to torture. Already the sweat was standing out on his forehead, horribly cold against the chilling winds. The ground swayed beneath his...