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          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

Manifest: A Shattered Future  Episode Ten – Phantom Pain (part 1)   “We think we should give a press release soon, but… it just seems so daunting! I hate to say it like this, since you guys know I don’t tolerate self-deprecation, but sometimes I feel like I don’t actually know how to do anything other than this,” Annabelle admitted to her friends. Ockham held Annabelle’s hand for support, but Silvia laughed and said, “I think it’s the same for me! I’m just lucky that no one’s interested in my research.” “Two reporters stalked me all the way to my lunch spot. They thought they were inconspicuous and got a booth right behind me. Yesterday they got in the parking garage,” Altair groaned. Elena nodded slowly, but instead she found herself distracted by the laboratory around them. She noticed that a layer of dust settled on the telescopes and charts in the corner of the laboratory. A quiet hum reverberated from machinery on the nearest table. A screen displayed the Fourier Transf