Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 136
136 Danado felt isolated, cut off, separate from everything happening around him, trapped inside his own bubble of space just outside the medical tent, unable to move, unable to get up, unable to do anything but sit here, watching Hell itself...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 68
68 Ander materialized through the layers of falling snow, becoming clearer as Kiana drew near. He was talking to his little brother. "Are the sentries down yet?" "About half," Hezzi replied, his bright red scarf billowing around his ears. "The far...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 67
67 With the wall growing out of the ground like a massive set of spiky teeth, the pass looked more like a hungry mouth than ever before, ready to chomp down and devour anything and everything foolish enough to approach it. And standing right on top of...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 66
66 Eleven beacons, first one halfway through the pass, one at every twist and turn. If it took half a minute to light each one, then that meant the Wolves were already five and a half minutes past the middle by the time the last one flared up, by the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 124
124 They didn't go far before they came across a she-wolf sitting in the shadowy gap between two tents, hugging her knees to her chest and rocking back and forth, muttering beneath her breath. Her hands were soaked in fresh blood, and that was reason...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 123
123 Nilia knew, even before they crashed through the snow-speckled web of bushes at the edge of the basecamp, that something was wrong. She could smell it on the wind, the stench of smoke and blood. The sounds of many voices, broken by the storm into...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 133
133 _Dan was right. You are running._ Nilia tried to still the voice inside her head. It used to be so simple, but ever since she met Mateo it was becoming increasingly hard to do, and this place wasn't making it any easier. The tent was filled to...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 152
152 "Who's still in there!?" someone shouted. Bethany did not know who. "For the love of the Cora, who's still in there!?" Voices. That's all they were. "Thoka, you and Ivio keep to the south side! Don't let those freaks get through! Denko, you stay...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 151
151 The flames had grown too high to even think about climbing over the top (not unless she wanted to char the meat right off her bones), so she threw herself down onto her stomach and pressed her cheek flat against the ground. Thank the gods the...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 150
150 With every gasp of air, she inhaled a lungful of bittersweet smoke, laced with the smell of burning leaves and something far more unpleasant, something almost profane: the stench of scorched fur and broiling meat. She could hear screams of pain...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 149
149 "Get up! Get the hell up!" The world came back in fits and starts; little pieces of sensory input that didn't make a whole lot of sense at first, conflicting messages that made her wonder if anything was real or if she was back in that horrid...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 148
148 There was light all around her, but not a good kind of light. Not a comforting light. This light was heavy, runny, almost like melted cheese, dripping down the walls of this place in thick, goopy strands. Her head hurt. Bethany raised a hand to...