Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 9
9 - crunching outside her tent, one pair heavy, one pair light, both of them loud enough to wake the dead. Even after they had passed by and the sound should have disappeared, she could still hear them inside her head. Maddening... infuriating... How...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 8
8 - flew past in a grey blur, almost knocking Kadai clean over, and then vanished into the crowd like a mouse into tall grass. "Hezzi, wait!" Kadai screamed after him, but it was no use. Hezzi skirted past awestruck Wolves left and right without even...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 7
7 "How's the cut?" Kadai asked, eyeing the long brown line of animal grease across his son's midsection. "What cut?" Hezzi replied, the smile on his face forced, but _there_. It was the only piece of good news Kadai has gotten all morning. His drisa...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 6
6 Valery... her name was Valery... Why did he think she had said Vallah? The names were similar, but... Banno pushed the thought away and stuffed the last piece of meat into his mouth. He reached for the pot of water by his side, almost knocked it...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 5
5 "Food? I don't want food!" Banno said, not sure if any of his words were even breaking through the haze. It felt like he was underwater again, but _dirty_ water, stagnant water that's been left to breed mosquitoes in some shady corner of the forest,...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 4
4 frickin' sandwich! Really!?" Luke said, not so much carving the ham as stabbing it. "What do you think about all this, Vee?" Valery didn't really know what to think, so she just calmly and quietly went about slicing the bread. She liked little...
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 3
James cocked an eyebrow, sat back in his seat, and then threw his head back and laughed at the ceiling, a hearty guffaw in stark contrast to the raspy croak that had issued from banno's throat, something that irritated him greatly.
Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 2
Black hands, in sharp contrast to the rest of her yellow-orange fur. a pretty little thing. a petite little thing. she peeked around the gate, staring at him with an eye so wide it almost seemed to take up half her face.
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 37
37 Hezzi's eyes flew open, and the first thing that raced through his mind was not relief at the fact that he was still alive, but horror at the change in light. Even in this gloomy place of sickness and death he could see that the world was much too...
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 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...