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Chapter Six: With Eyes Adjusted to Darkness (I1B0C6)

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               Chapter Six: With Eyes Adjusted to Darkness               “Where is this? What is this? I don’t want to be here,” asked the voice of a scared girl.             Hatasuko answered, “You are locked in a tempest of lost souls. The voices you hear are the screams of those taken by the Interfecti.”             “I don’t understand why I can hear them. I thought I was lost to the shadows. Death was supposed to end the pain,” she whispered.             “You hear the screaming souls because you are a screaming soul. I don’t know how long you’ve been dead, but you must have somehow pieced yourself together inside the tempest. You reassembled your memories and your soul. That’s why you can speak to me now.” ...
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Chapter Five: Envoy of the Afterlife (I1B0C5)

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  Chapter Five: Envoy of the Afterlife                “I’ve always thought that the northern ocean is the most beautiful place in Agrideī,” whispered the voice in the tempest. Though his back still ached, Hatasuko twisted his head to the right and stared at the ocean as he sailed on by. The flatland of Agrideī’s northern coast was bumpy enough to amplify the pain every few seconds, but the sail-rana still worked better than walking. As he dealt with the pain, he looked over the starlit sea and watched the weak waves crash into the sand. With every wave that fell, a small cloud of steam lifted into the air. “Even with all the waves and steam, the water reflects the stars in the sky. You’re right, Sokaido; this is beautiful,” Hatasuko answered back. “It’s a harsh world out there. We need to see beauty everywhere we can find it. It’s like a single piscileo hidden in the ocean. You just have to fish for it!” “Somet...
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