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           The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X)                Chapter Two – Echoes and the Infinite Spiral I walked for days through the dark desert with just a sword in hand; I trudged endlessly onward through an ocean made of sand. I searched every horizon for any sign of trees, but all I ever found was a forceful desert breeze. I lost the love of my life and lied to my head; I swore to myself that she wasn’t really dead. I both denied and lamented the tragedy, but it burrowed in my heart like a cavity; the truth was inescapable as gravity. I screamed in my head to force myself on track; I swore to myself that one day I’d have her back. I forced my frail legs to stumble on the path, whispering the reality that there was nowhere to go back. I wandered that windswept plain for what felt like an eternity, but I limited my body to only its most essential functions. My legs ambled onward with practically no instruction or direction. My eyes scanned the starlit

          The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X)             Chapter One – A Lesson Learned in Loss               They say that this city stands at the edge of the world as a boundary between the sky and the sea. It is a city built for hope but stained by tragedy. Countless years ago, someone named this place Bones City to honor the lives lost in darker days. It is said that we were meant to pay homage to the fallen, but I have found that ideals and reality rarely align in truth. This city swears to honor its heroes and venerate its victims, but the people of Bones City shut themselves off from the world a long time ago. When monsters roamed the dusty plains and endless meadows, willful men used their strength to build walls instead of weapons. By some sick twist of hypocrisy, we revere acts of bravery but hide ourselves from a broken world. We applaud the valor of men who guard the walls from the safety of the city as if it is unthinkable to step out into the sand

         Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X)             Prologue             I wrote this journal for myself in the guise of a life I can dream when the stars sway. It is a gift for tomorrow left from today; it is a story of hope and also decay. It is a diary of a lifetime as it phases to gray. As time races onward and dances away, the memories will fade but these scars will stay. The malice within me will never allay—it is a madness that only these words can convey. But if I can write them and hide from the fray, then I can stay stable if just for a day. I have a mind meant for math but not memory, so I am cursed to conclude that these words will one day rest as a reverie of the life I once lived and then lost to time. It is a faraway outcome I can infinitely extrapolate—an asymptote solved by my subconscious but only at a glance. It is both a restraint and a release that I will one day lose the whispers of her love and the crimes I committed to keep her by my sid

 Manifest: A Shattered Future Episode Eleven – Phantom Pain (part 2)   “Is… the Alchemist of Astroconvergence really gone…?” Elena asked as she trembled, leaning most of her weight on her cane. The Elder monk stared across the battlefield and answered, “Only for this battle. In the same way that we recharge our monoliths over time, our sorcerers will restore their connections as well. Your alchemist is not gone forever, but if you are foolish enough to use your red monolith for the same sorcerer every time… then you won’t have a chance against me. Then again, I suspect you realize that that may be the least of your concerns.” Elena drew a card and quickly gazed across the battlefield. The Captain of the Luminous Sky stood in the center of the arena, able to strike any enemy and launch them to a place where they would fall prey to the Princess of Swirling Cinders. Even her Underwater Illusionist could not reach a place safe from both enemies, meaning that the Elder monk could br