On Colonizing Part 3
"This is Overseer signing out." Immediately after the Overseer's last word the sound of wingbeats could be heard at a great distance, rapidly growing louder. Before anyone present was able to react, and with a quaking tremble a truly immense creature...
Getaway: Part 3
_ **part 3** _ in the days and weeks that followed those initial discussions, i managed to get somewhere approaching comfortable with the idea of travelling all the way to polcia. i'd also got used to fact that i'd be heading there with sasha in tow.
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 40
40 He'd see it occasionally, leaping through the mist, running through the underbrush, weaving its way between the trees. Sometimes it would stop and wait for him before darting on again. The scratches on its back were completely gone now. They...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 36
36 Ander thought he would surely black out again, but he didn't. Maybe he was in too much pain to black out, if that even made sense. Lying on the ground, he knew the wound in his chest was bleeding again. The blood was warm, but the morning air was...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 35
35 ...go." Kadai sucked in air between his clenched teeth, this wretched feeling inside caught somewhere between outright anger and irrepressible sorrow. He couldn't tell whether he wanted to embrace his son or punch him in the face. He looked up at...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 41
41 _Enka_. _It wasn't enough. It wasn't nearly enough. There was something missing, something vitally important, but I couldn't figure out what..._ That's what Father had said back in his tent. Before... before everything. Looking at it now, Ander...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 39
39 It felt like Ander had been walking for hours. He didn't know this path, but he could see the tip of the Cora through the gaps in the canopy, a hazy grey tooth pointed at the sun, shining down through the mist like a white hole in the sky. There...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 33
33 The pain was so bad, he only wished for the relief of unconsciousness. As he lay there, with his face against the ground, struggling for every breath, he thought he'd even welcome the peace of death. If only it would take the pain away. "By the...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 42
42 - anaaaaaaah!!" "What!? What is it, Devin!?" "This is stupid!" "_You're_stupid!" Kiana snapped back. Not the cleverest of comebacks, but she was far too fretful to think up anything more original. She hacked away at the thick underbrush, her...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 28
28 The pain was slipping away... no, that wasn't right. It was still there, but diluted. It was mixing with his rage, fusing with his fury into a brand new emotion he's never felt before. If Ander was still within his right mind, he might've compared...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 23
23 Ander knew Hezzi wouldn't be able to forgive him. Banno was more of a god to him than even the Cora. Slaying that god must have turned him into the foulest demon imaginable, fully deserving of all the pain and torture the tribe could deliver. But...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 22
22 Hezzi couldn't have heard right. There was no way in Hell. He... He was just so caught up in Ander's appearance, with the blood everywhere... He couldn't have... Garten couldn't have just told him to gouge out Ander's eye. Could he? He wanted to...