Raw Pleasures
Every book seemed to lean toward me, whispering promises, daring me to claim them.
I stepped deeper. At the far end, a cabinet stood half-open, glinting with polished wood and brass. Inside, not books but implements lay arranged with ritual precision: a ruler long and narrow, a whip braided like rope, a mask with eyeholes that looked too human to be comfortable. I should have recoiled. Instead, my body betrayed me with a shiver that wasn’t fear.
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