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 A World without Misery (Interitus 1: Book 0)              Chapter Three – In Shadows of Scarring Memories   “We need to head north,” Hatasuko muttered in his sleep.              The sound of his own voice startled him from slumber. His eyes slowly fell open to the world of endless starlight, revealing a wide river which glistened in the pulsing light. Hatasuko took a moment to remember his location, but he quickly realized that he was sitting in the front seat of a sail-rana. The boat drifted quickly with the current as the river charged east, though most of their sails were folded; the wind flowed northwestward as usual. Hatasuko glanced up and saw Lazaro’s boat slightly ahead of his, though Lazaro could still hear him over the sound of the river. Vaida was half-asleep in the seat behind Hatasuko. She covered her face with her dark hair, hiding her eyes from the pulsing starlight.             Lazaro said from a short distance, “We already are, remember? Lumipyla is north of t

  “I never listened when he said he loved me because I hate myself so much. He said that I’m blind if I can’t see it, but I cannot accept my own reflection. I am revolted by the girl in the mirror; her scarred face haunts me every day. So how am I supposed to move on? I want to gaze into the future. But every time I try to look ahead, one eye can only see the past.”  Character Name: Vaida First Appearance: A World without Misery (Chapter 1), named in Chapter 2 Eye Color: Blue left eye, Sea-green (blind) right eye Endurance:    17           Strength: 7              Speed: 9               Dexterity: 3.9; Weapons: Twin Swords, Whip, Rocks       Vaida is a scientist and inventor who left her orphanage and hometown behind to chase the Interfecti. Though she is recalcitrant with details of her past, she hints that an Interfectus attacked Bones City and destroyed everything she knew. In the aftermath of that attack, she spent months in a hospital and was left with enormous burn scars which co

  A sail-rana is a vehicle invented by Vaida, although credited to Lazaro who sold the designs to merchants and engineers in  Agrideī . Although it can come in many different shapes and sizes, the core concept is a wheeled boat with a foldable mast and sail. When the sail is deployed, the passengers can catch the wind and roll northwestward over land, since this is the direction in which the wind normally blows. (See  Agrideī  for more information). The boat can also roll into the ocean or a river, where a sailor can choose to either row, ride the current, or continue sailing. Because the wind hitting the large sail (usually rectangular) tips the structure forward, it is advised that passengers sit in the back. A sail-rana has a steering wheel which tilts the wheels on land and the rudder in water. It also comes with a small floor-hatch through which passengers can switch gears and shift between tilting wheels and tilting the rudder. Most engineers in  Agrideī  found themselves enthral

 A World without Misery (Interitus 1: Book 0)             Chapter Two – Ceremony of the Broken           “Can anyone out there hear me?” yelled a single voice from the edge of the tempest that roared in Hatasuko’s mind.             Though his body was fast asleep, Hatasuko still could not find peace from the orchestra of souls in his head. As soon as he heard these words, he tried to mentally sift through the endless darkness in search of the voice. He rarely heard coherent words in the tempest, and even then, it was almost always an exclamation of agony. It was almost always the sound of a lost soul screaming for someone who meant so much to them that it was all that they could think about, even in this disembodied state.             “Yes! Yes, I can hear you. I can hear all of you. I can’t hear anything else,” Hatasuko answered into the emptiness.             “I don’t know how, but I managed to piece myself together in that massive storm of souls. I remember screaming even