Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 39
39 There were no dreams for Banno. He was too tired to dream. His sleep was just a solid wall of blackness... so peaceful... so tranquil... Until it wasn't. There was something else, too... something touching his leg, crawling, biting, stinging. Some...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 41
41 The wind blew in his face and rippled his fur, working its way against his skin, so bitter cold, stinging his eyes, invading his nostrils. It was just... _cold_. Even the moonlight falling across the grass felt cold. It's been too long since he's...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 40
40 She was so beautiful, lying in the moonlight with her hair flowing across the pillow, pooling around her shoulders like liquid fire. One of her hands was up by her ear, the fingers curled up ever so slightly as if to catch the moonbeams streaming...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 30
30 It was black, but it was also not black. Kadai could see shapes swimming in the darkness, moving from one side to the other like silver fish, leaving glowing trails behind them, constantly shifting in colour. Was this a dream? He wanted to reach...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 35
35 The day was sunny and beautiful, much too beautiful. This was a day for picnics by the river, or a horse ride in the fields, or just for sitting on the porch, watching the clouds go by. Days like this weren't made for double funerals in the dark...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 34
34 He stood before his own front door, feeling absurdly like he should knock, like a stranger visiting a stranger's house. He reached for the knob, still not knowing what he was going to say or do, when it was pulled open from the other side. It was...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 33
33 "James?" He didn't want to raise his head, not after the way she had called his name: so softly, so delicately, like the sound alone might break him. He was fine just sitting here, looking down at his shoes, tap-tap-tapping in his restlessness....
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 32
32 "And what are you up to, sonny-boy?" James asked, watching the strange tableau his son had created. Luke was sitting cross-legged on his bed, surrounded by all manner of clothes and preserved food items, trying to figure out the best way to stuff...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 31
31 "So what really happened in there?" Luke asked, but to Valery it didn't sound like he actually cared that much. Also, she didn't like the way the gaps in the barn's walls threw lines of light across his face, like warpaint. "Banno scratched his...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 36
36 "- all alone in this giant house?" he asked, stepping inside. "Oh, it's not so bad," she said and closed the door behind him. "How are your children doing? Those poor darlings, I can't even imagine." "They're strong. Amazingly strong. Sometimes I...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 37
37 "The weather sure is fine today, isn't it?" Laura said, peeking out the window at all the beautiful buds starting to bloom in her garden. There were marigolds and hyacinths and lilies, but the yellow roses were her favourite by far, like miniature...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 50
50 "NOOO!!" Kadai sat bolt upright, gasping for air, his heart thumping madly in his chest. Everything was gone. _Literally_. He was sitting in an endless expanse of white. There was no sky, there was no ground. It was all just white. He didn't even...