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Their footsteps were heavy and even and they walked slightly ahead of me, close enough that it was clear I was being escorted, far enough that it didn't look like dragging.
When we reached the tall wooden door at the end of the hall, one of them knocked twice, sharp and quick, then opened it and stepped aside. I stepped through alone. The door closed behind me.
The room stopped me for half a second before I remembered to keep moving.
It was large in a way that was almost aggressive about it. Dark charcoal walls, almost black, and on the left side bookshelves running floor to ceiling with actual books, hundreds of them, the kind with cracked spines and worn edges that had clearly been read an
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