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       The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X)             Chapter Ten – The Beast of Bones City               “I swear I saw this same shore inside my dreams. We danced hand-in-hand to a melody of screams. It was at Ember Bay that you entered this city, but it is on this shore that we enter eternity. I saw it in my dreams like it was written in the stars, as if to tell us that this destiny is ours. This is the place where the past and future collide,” I said to Aeliana as I held her hand at my side. She said to me as she set her head on my chest, “In some ways it seems that our destiny’s a test. The stars align to illuminate a path, but they scatter the starlit road with potholes and hurdles so that most people are damned to see their destiny denied or rendered as a reverie that they can never achieve. The stars crossed us and ...

  I have just finished a long campaign of rigorously editing A World without Misery (Interitus 1: Book 0). These edits do not include any changes to the story or canonicity, but they should improve readability. If you have not yet read A World without Misery, please do give it a try! If you have already read it, these updates probably do not warrant another read-through.

      The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X)             Chapter Nine – Golden Eyes, Glowing Embers   I saw her smile when the snow transformed to rain; I saw her twirl on the beach like a human hurricane. Tiny drops of water descended from faint clouds and speckled our skin with a soothing touch. I watched her come alive in the falling rain like a parched plant after a drought, and she danced in the shallows with her clothes plastered to her skin. The ocean did a gentle dance of its own, pushing itself upward and then pulling itself back. She and the sea danced together in the rain which promised a petrichor if only we would stay to breathe in its aftertaste after it had passed. And just as old scars still scattered her skin, the distant glow of lava summoned a scarlet glow which devoured the sky. As long as we ignored the makeshift cemetery just beneath our feet, the scarlet shore summo...

 

     The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Eight – Plague of a Dying Star   Sometimes I can see myself drifting slowly between the stars like I am locked beneath the sea. And in this space I struggle silently just to catch my long-lost breath, like I’ve been drowning for a lifetime in my own emptiness. I can see glimpses of myself as a silhouette clinging to shadows cast by wayward asteroids. In some ways, I always thought of myself as someone trapped in an infinite orbit, born beyond the event horizon of a celestial collapse set to unravel the very fabric of this universe. Perhaps that was my curse all along. Perhaps I got caught in a black hole in a past life and used what little power I had left to infect my incarnations with venomous tentacles that transcend time and space. It was early on a snow-touched morning when I stepped out into the starlit street. Wispy clouds drifted quickly through the sky and shrouded the snow from t...