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    A World without Misery (Interitus 1: Book 0) Chapter Eighteen – Regrets   “Hey, Vaida, did you say something?” Hatasuko muttered sleepily. Hatasuko opened his tired eyes and glanced around the upstairs room. The darkness was interrupted lightly by the glow of flickering candles and a ray of starlight coming through the window. Vaida slept peacefully beside him with her face pressed against his side, and her little hands clung onto his chest. He glanced around for a moment to search for the sound that pulled him from his sleep, but everything inside the room was quiet. However, he heard several shouts and voices from the street outside the inn. It seemed like a strange time for people to be outside and hollering. “The tempest is restless like never before. The lost souls are furiously pronouncing their pain. These screams are deafening. Why are they screaming now? Why do I hear them?” Hatasuko groaned quietly, knowing that he would not fall back asleep. Suddenly, the entir

   A World without Misery (Interitus 1: Book 0) Chapter Seventeen – At the Edge of the Oasis               “There’s always been a barrier between a man’s beliefs and his actions. I don’t think there’s ever been anyone without this dissonance. It may be seen as one of our flaws, as some intrapersonal hypocrisy, but I think that it’s too natural to not be hereditary. It’s too common to not be a trait of human nature. This can only mean that we’re better off as a species because our hearts and our brains disagree with each other,” said a lost soul from the emptiness.             Though the tempest was unusually quiet, countless yells echoed through its endless hollows. Hatasuko could sense that distress still pervaded the abyss of lost souls, especially now that it had so many new victims, but the pressure was not as powerful as before. Hatasuko knew that this meant he was physically close to Vaida, even though he was asleep. Only one voice pressed enough to coherently speak from t