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 The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X)             Chapter Four – Prices and Prospects                           I wasted years of my life wide awake but sleeping. She saved me from my sleep and soothed my sordid soul, but she came and left as if I were just dreaming. But this dream of lost love left a hole, so like a nightmare I wake screaming. She poured like water from a broken bowl—a bowl cursed such that it can never be full. But even while sleeping, I heard her voice still singing. Even while dreaming, I could not stop from screaming. I was incomplete without her. It was three days after I killed Aziel and assimilated his merciless soul that I arrived at the door to the tunnel. It was only with his stolen sense of direction that I managed to find the door in the first place. It was only with my ambition and his will that I withstood the force of my own starvation. Bellaina had said that she would welcome me back into Bones City in this place so that

 

The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Three – A Clash of Starving Souls   I think I first fell in love with her in a past life, and the love we shared in Bones City was an echo of an eternal bond bound by brevity. It was proven by the fact that we could not live forever in the bodies with which we first found each other. Even now as I set out for a second time across the badlands in the opposite direction, I realized exactly what it meant to exist as twin flames dancing in an endless spiral. We were destined for an eternal cycle of immortal love, but each lifetime was ephemeral at best; we were cursed to find each other for only a fleeting breath in the eyes of eternity, and then the force of our fragile bodies would diverge us again and again. And every time, our memories would burn as the price to echo back into the other’s life. Even as I crept through the starlit plains, I realized that destiny had likely intertwined us countless times already, b

 

           The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X)                Chapter Two – Echoes and the Infinite Spiral I walked for days through the dark desert with just a sword in hand; I trudged endlessly onward through an ocean made of sand. I searched every horizon for any sign of trees, but all I ever found was a forceful desert breeze. I lost the love of my life and lied to my head; I swore to myself that she wasn’t really dead. I both denied and lamented the tragedy, but it burrowed in my heart like a cavity; the truth was inescapable as gravity. I screamed in my head to force myself on track; I swore to myself that one day I’d have her back. I forced my frail legs to stumble on the path, whispering the reality that there was nowhere to go back. I wandered that windswept plain for what felt like an eternity, but I limited my body to only its most essential functions. My legs ambled onward with practically no instruction or direction. My eyes scanned the starlit