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merchanting · 4 years ago

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Lie Berry | Otto & Victorique

All Otto had wanted to do was go to the library. Knowledge was power and in some regards he could use a refresher, but also every once in a while he just wanted to curl up with a good book. It helped set his mind at ease and distract him from the stress of his daily life. Shizume had a plethora of libraries for everyone to use and yet he’d put in his phone, requesting MapQuest to lead him to the nearest one in his vicinity.

However, as Otto absentmindedly rode onward, a feeling of uncertainty started to spring up. The first was, Why is this taking so long? Followed by, is- is that an island? As he passed through the toll gate and on, he got the distinct feeling that MapQuest had led him severely astray.

At the very least, he guessed he could count his lucky stars that he wasn’t paying for gas because surely this trip would have cost him, but also.. It was sort of nice. Seeing himself surrounded by the water, with the sunlight reflected on the surface gave him a sense of serenity that he had been seeking, hence the reason for his destination. Why, if he could curl up with a good book to this view he was sure all his worries and stress would just melt away.

“I’m sorry, sir.. You can’t just bring a horse on campus. Animal’s aren’t allowed.”

That was probably the second thing to have gone wrong that day. As he edged closer and closer to the school he was stopped by a security guard. “Ehh? But I came all this way! Is there nowhere he is allowed!?” As panic distorted Otto’s features, the guard appeared to mull over this and decided that it would be fine as long as it did not enter on campus. He had no specific rules for how it should be handled other than that it just couldn’t come any further and that he wanted no responsibility in taking care of it.

“Perfectly fine! He’ll be just fine right here, see?” He patted the horse and then once again fed him, then left a large bowl of water for him. “You’ll be alright on your own, won’t you?” The horse seemed exhale through it’s nose as if in affirmation, and Otto set off down foot onto the campus. It was huge! The more he tread on, the bigger the land grew around him and the less he saw of the water.

“Let’s see.. You’ve already steered me way off course once today.. But there IS a library here, right?” He narrowed his eyes at his phone as he followed it to a small estate, nestled within the confines of greenery. It looked like one fancy library. Somehow that just made him even more excited for it. A building this big would certainly have a ton of books! Given that the city had buildings so small and nestled together, perhaps MapQuest had actually worked in his favor to steer him towards the biggest library in the city!

Otto hummed as he entered the building, his excitement winding down as he got lost a few times but eventually found his way to an area of the building that boasted shelves upon shelves of books. He was definitely in the right place now! The shelves were so high that for anything higher up would require a ladder and he had no idea how to feel about that. As he ventured in, his eyes taking in the sight he noticed something that seemed a little out of place. He wouldn’t lie and say that it didn’t initially startle him, since the library was so quiet he figured he was the only one inside.

“A doll?” He questioned as he blinked at a blonde dressed in baroque styled clothes. It hadn’t moved at all since he entered so he came to the conclusion that it probably wasn’t an actual person. “Wow, it’s so well made.”

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questionablehero · 4 years ago

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Of Mazes And Men || Subaru & Victorique

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Stepping into the Ashinaka Library, the sight that greeted Subaru was beyond what he’d imagined even for the so-called “towering library”. Craning his neck back, there was no explicit end in sight of the myriad floors, each distinguishable by the railing guarding the floor itself from the vacuous center of the tower. The building itself was circular in structure, giving each floor the appearance of a ring of sorts, lining the shelved walls containing the library’s precious stores of knowledge. Connecting each floor to the next was a staircase, stretching from one end of the lower floor to the opposite end of the higher floor, in a zigzagging, criss-crossing pattern, so that when Subaru’s unprepared eyes looked up from the ground floor, he was met with the dizzying, labyrinthine spectacle that constituted this library’s structure.

“Huh… So when she said it was a ‘towering library,’ it wasn’t an exaggeration,” he muttered to himself. He had been informed of this library and its vast stores of knowledge by someone during his search for more information on the mysterious strain powers afflicting him. In addition to the ability to resurrect from death (with his memories, unfortunately, completely intact, and with no control over it whatsoever on his own part), recently he had been experiencing another foreign feeling. Originating deep within his chest, he could feel something unusual stirring, shifting, like a viscous sludge had wormed its way into his heart.

Curiosity had compelled him to nudge it previously, and he’d found that it was surprisingly reactive to his will, bending and moving with surprising ease. And, as he’d pushed it forward, a strange black hand had emerged from his chest, pushing out from roughly where his heart was but yet without any kind of physical repercussions to his body. It was at that point that he’d retracted his authority over the new power, making the hand vanish instantly. Fatigue had washed over him then, dropping him to his knees, as a strange gaping, sorrowful loneliness flooded his chest as well.

That had been his experience with the new strange power, which he figured must have been a new strain ability granted to him at some point. And it was his thirst for more knowledge on this subject that led him now to the Ashinaka Library. Surely, if any place would have information on such a topic, it would be this place.

“But, really, I have to climb all these stairs to the top?” Such had been the suggestion given to him by his contact, but… looking at it now, it looked impossible. Having been a shut-in NEET for so long, he really didn’t have any endurance to speak of. But, well, he’d already traveled all the way to this library, and he had his heart set on learning anything he could about what was going on.

So, full of youthful vigor and determination, he started his ascent.

One floor at a time, he climbed stairs to reach his lofty goal.

It wasn’t long before his determination gave way to sheer dread.

Three floors up, he was already exhausted, sweating through his tracksuit, knees wobbling from the demanding strain of the climb, and still had… countless more to go. Why hadn’t he at least thought to bring water?

Cursing his lack of such foresight, he continued dragging aching feet up more and more stairs, desperately grasping onto the railing for support as the relentless climb continued to sap away his meager reserves of strength.

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Finally, after more floors than Subaru had bothered to count, his feet landed on the solid, even floor of the uppermost floor, his goal. Falling to his hands and knees, gasping for breath to fill lungs that screamed and ached for oxygen, he almost forgot for the moment his reason for even climbing up here as he fought just to catch his breath.

“Haahhh… Hahhhhh… Really… I need to know… What kinda architect… designed this library?!”

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