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 Manifest: A Shattered Future                Episode Three: The Adriatic Emblem                  “Do you have a favorite spell card?” Elena asked with a quizzical excitement in her light brown eyes.                Romulo stood a short distance away with his back leaned against the white wall of the infirmary, seeming to ponder an answer to her question. While they listened to the quiet din of patients and doctors speaking in the background, Elena stood beside her cot with her cards scattered on the sheet. The incandescent light touched every corner of the cobwebby room, and it caused his light blue eyes to shimmer. As he spun his black monolith in his hand, he answered, “It seems to change all the time! Sorry if that’s a boring answer. Now that I’ve got Typhoon Paladin on my side, it seems like it should be something that works with him! Although… I’ll admit I’m a sucker for the generic spells that anyone can cast. There’s a simplicity in that!”                Elena smiled and

  Manifest: A Shattered Future Episode Two: The Girl Stolen from the Past                   A cool breeze swept through the street and carried the scent of blossoming flowers. Though he had almost reached his destination, Romulo smiled and leaned over to smell a rose in a nearby garden. But when he tilted his head, some strands of his auburn hair fell upon the wet dirt. He straightened out his back and looked around, hoping that no one had seen his blunder. But when he saw Altair standing just outside the infirmary with a disapproving stare, Romulo chuckled and shook his head.                 “It’s a beautiful day to stop and smell the roses, wouldn’t ya know?” Romulo said to his friend.                 But Altair simply shook his head and pulled his glasses off his face. He briefly wiped them with the edge of his gray shirt, returned them to his face, and answered, “Shouldn’t you take this more seriously? We still haven’t found that conjurer from last night. His monoliths are

            A World without Misery (Interitus 1: Book 0)             Chapter Twenty-Six – Until We Meet Again               As he stared out over the southern shore of his island, Caelicola said, “I think I knew from the start that this was never about mercy. As much as I hate to admit it, he was right all along. Hatasuko is the only one who could ever save this universe from the monsters I’ve unleashed. My existence has only been a burden. I’ve poisoned this world with the power of creation, and now I will be devoured by the very same creatures that condemned Agrideī. I have ruined everything; I was a curse from the start.”             On a ship that he created a short while ago, Caelicola had sent his family away from the fourth isle of Aether. He now stood alone on the shimmering rock which was marked with a large square of flat stone, indicating the place where he had launched Hatasuko into space. Caelicola glanced up and watched a sea of dark clouds roll across the steamy sky. As