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           The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Seventeen: Cycles and Sinewaves   I think to some extent that I am guilty of distorting true reality with a myopic lens. Eloquent excerpts and phrases danced in my mind as if they could in any way provide some comfort or closure, but closure as a concept is cathartic at its very best. I did not want closure; I did not want to accept our time together could end. I would rather cling onto a tiny shred of hope and use it as an adhesive to pull myself together just enough to pass as whole, like the pieces of a broken bowl bound together by a low-grade paste. I pushed myself toward this hope as if it were the only blindfold which would accommodate the way I refused the reality. The poisoned air of an unclean world had contaminated my lungs after years in a moment of living in my head, begging both adversarial stars and an unreal God for one last chance to see her again. If th...

          The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X)             Chapter Sixteen – Array of Infinite Emptiness   It was a mistake that haunts every memory that inhabits my hopeless mind. The mere invocation of that mistake has the power to transform a daydream into a nightmare. If only I asked her to freeze time in the moment Hayatama took the stand, then perhaps we could have completed our campaign as it was always intended. We could have finished the inscription in seconds and spent the rest of our vacation from time splashing in the shallows, dancing beside the shore which would witness the death of an entire city. We would have danced hand-in-hand on a future cemetery. But because the thought had not crossed my mind, because my tunnel-vision had driven me to complete the Array, I became blinded to the world around me. I became blinded to the obvious solution to a more important problem. That mist...

           The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Fifteen – Lamentation at the Precipice   I once lived this life like a loner lost in the limelight, locked to lament a life I never sought. Countless men would kill for a fraction of my might, but this unmatched power is something I did not want. All we ever wanted was a quiet life beneath the stars, but we were cursed in such a way that peace could never quite be ours. I did not embark on this path for some sick fantasy of power, despite that there are countless souls I know I must devour. It was the stars which crossed me and cursed me to perdition; they forced their way between us and put me in this position. Each crime I must commit could cause a weaker man contrition, but I instead ignore the consequence and declare it in remission. I will let no force in this world take her from me, even if we must devour everyone just for a shot at being free. The others in this w...

          The Emblem of the Star-Crossed Lovers (Interitus 1: Book X) Chapter Fourteen – Extraneous Solutions   Without waiting or wasting a weary moment, the underworld queen activated her power and unleashed a high-speed storm of energy blades. Desperate to defend my disease-stricken lover, I activated the first power I had ever stolen. I summoned a substitute to serve as a shield, and I tilted it to bloodily block the blades which barreled through her kitchen. Though her attack dismembered my defensive dummy, the multifarious impact spun me around to face the two henchmen who blocked our escape. I then unleashed my second stolen power in the form of a fiery sphere which shot across the spacious kitchen. One henchman stood his ground and extended his glowing hands as if they could somehow interrupt my attack. But in the moment that this henchman touched my high-speed fireball, he immediately reflected it in the opposite direction. The blazing sphere...