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A quiet night shift at a twenty four hour library
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in Michigan is about to get a lot more interesting.
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An accidental hole in the wall leads to a very
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unexpected discovery, a book so dangerous that reading from it
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isn't even the worry. Its simple existence is death.
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What's that? You want to be scared? Come with me.
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You will experience tales over our broad ghosts and death. Death.
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It is not recommended at the foot of the week
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at art listeners in the dark. It's more fun at
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that way. Way.
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This is Weekly Speaking, Hello, my Spookyes, it's Wednesday, and
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you know what that means. It's time for a little
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spooky in your weekly. I'm your host and narrator, Enrique Kuto,
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and we have quite the chilling show for you tonight
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as we head to Battle Creek, Michigan and a twenty
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four hour library that harbors some dark secrets. But before
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we get to that, I want to say very much
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how thankful I am to have you here listening. As
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my friends, as the sun goes down, I don't know
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about you, but I need a book, so let's all
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head to the library after these quick words. Book Return
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by Douglas Waltz. While I never would have referred to
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my position as night librarrian at the Battle Creek Public
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Library as a dream job, it did have its benefits.
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The majority of the denizens of the city, most popularly
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known as Serial City, had no clue. The library stayed
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open twenty four hours a day, which was fine by me.
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Few patrons meant less work. Luckily, I was something of
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a night owl to begin with. It was a frosty
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February twenty ninth when I arrived at the library promptly
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at ten o'clock greeted the last of the day librarians, Genie,
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who had worked for the library for some twenty five years.
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She gave me the same amused look every day when
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I came in the door. Genie was used to the
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eccentrics of the library. Founded by W. K. Kellogg of
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Kellogg's Serial fame. He was the one who said that
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the library should always be open except for Sundays. Even
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Kellogg knew not to mess with the church going folks
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of Battle Creek, Michigan. Genie left me to my own devices,
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and I went around the library tidying up, putting books
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back in their proper places. I went to check the
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return bin and found just a single book. It was
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a very old history book of the area, written by
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Jerome Blackwell, an infamous local author who wrote detailed accounts
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of the area in the late eighteen hundreds. It was
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odd to see it in the return bin. It belonged upstairs,
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in the stacks where we kept the reference books that
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weren't of available for checkout. How in the hell did
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it manage to get checked out. Someone probably snagged it
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and snuck it out. A lot of the books in
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the stacks didn't have the little device that would set
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off the alarm if you tried to take it out
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of the library. I checked to see if anyone was
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actually in the library and found Carl Eberhart sitting comfortably
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reading a magazine. I told him I had to head upstairs,
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and he nodded in response, without looking up from whatever
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he was reading. Even in the daylight, the upstairs was
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always a little creepy, poorly lit, with mountains of books
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on sagging shelves. The book belonged on the back wall,
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so As I made my way towards its place in
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the organized mess, my toe hit the edge of one
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of the bookshelves, propelling me forward and down towards the
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back wall. The hefty tomb in my hand struck the
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wall next to the back wall and went through the
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plasterboard like it was tissue. Dust filled my nostrils, as
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well as a terrible smell. For a brief moment, I
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thought I might have found a leaky sewer pipe, but
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when I used the light from my phone, I saw
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the hole was quite dry and the smell had started
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to dissipate. I saw something that looked like brown leather
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and reached in to see what it was. It was
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a large leather bound book, and I needed to break
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away more of the wall board to free it from
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its hiding place. It felt heavier than it should be
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for its size. I decided to take it downstairs in
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a better light to examine my find. Carl was still
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reading his magazine when I came back downstairs. I put
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the book on the front counter and reached under for
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a roll of paper towels so I could gently remove
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the dust. The book was in great shape for being
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stuck in a wall for so long, brown ornate leather
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binding and what appeared to be gold leaf with what
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appeared to be a single word embossed on the leather
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in Territus. My Latin was rusty, so I checked Google
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Translate on my phone. It meant destruction. That seemed to
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be pretty basic. What could a book name destruction be about?
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I started to carefully open the book when a voice,
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feeling like it was next to my ear, said, what's
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that there? I flinched at the unexpected noise and looked
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up to see that Carl had made his way over
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to the counter and was standing across from me. It's
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an old book I found upstairs. Pretty fancy, ain't it? Yes, Carl,
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it is pretty fancy. What's that word on the front?
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Ain't English? No, it's Latin. It means destruction. And you
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were going to open it? What the book? The book
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with the word destruction on the cover, and you thought
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it might be all right to open it? Well, I stammered,
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unused to this much of a conversation with Carl, who
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up to now usually communicated with a nod and a grunt.
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It's just a book, Ah, Yep, it's a book. But
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it might be haunted. I've seen that in a movie once.
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Of course, that book was nastier looking than this one.
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Had a face on it, a face on it, Carl,
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Are you referring to the movie The Evil Dead? Yeah,
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that's the one. Yeah, creepy movie. Guy had a chainsaw hand.
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That was pretty cool. Oh so you watched part two?
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Part two? They made more than one of those. Yes. Now,
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I am going to open this book and if that
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worries you, you can go home. Can't What do you mean, can't?
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The missus has a bunch of her friends over tonight
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for some book club. Carl looked at his watch. I
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got another hour before I dare show my ass at
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the house book club. That's nice. What book are they reading?
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Beats me? They usually use it as an excuse to
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drink a bunch of wine and gossip. I almost laughed
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at that. Well, Carl, I'm still going to open the book.
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I would expect that it's written in Latin, and Latin
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is not something that I'm fluent in. Okay, you're a funeral.
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I'm a head over to the liquor store and get
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a road pop. And with that, Carl abruptly turned around
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and left the library. I stood there for a moment
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watching him leave, before returning my attention to the tome
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on the counter. What did Carl know, I asked myself
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as I looked at the book. Hell, he didn't even
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know there was a part one for the Evil Dead?
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How does someone just watch the sequel to a movie?
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Probably had never even heard of Army of Darkness. I
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slowly opened book, the leather and binding, protesting at the movement. Suddenly,
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the book flipped open, and a swirling miasma of black
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and purple from the book sent me flying back into
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the shelf behind the counter where we held books for people.
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A bright light filled my vision when the back of
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my head connected with the edge of a shelf. Then
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everything went black. The next thing I heard was, of
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all things, Carl. I opened my eyes and everything was blurry.
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For a moment, my vision focused and I saw his face. Carl,
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I came back to see what happened when you opened
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the book? It seems you took a nasty fall. What happened?
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I told him about the explosion from the book, the
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weird colors, and how it made me fall back into
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the shelf. He nodded and smiled attentively as I told
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my story. Then he helped me up from the floor.
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I was amazed at how strong he was. He lifted
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me like I was a child, my feet coming off
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the floor for a moment. Well, you don't seem any
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worse for wear, my lad. He continued to smile at me.
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Then it clicked my mind, playing back what had just happened,
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Carl's speech patterns, his unnatural strength. Carl's smile faded. Oh my,
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I seem to have made a mistake, haven't I What
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gave it away? The strength? I suppose? Was this human
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a weakling? I shook my head. You don't talk like Carl.
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Carl had a seventh grade education before he dropped out
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of school to work on his father's farm. Ah. Well,
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I'm afraid that I don't absorb any memories when I
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inhabit a lesser form and you are. Oh, I go
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by many names. I prefer Ulupoka, ulupoca. That sounds like
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something from the Pasa Islands. Very good, my boy, Polynesian
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to be exact. And you ended up in a book?
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How exactly long story that I really don't have time
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to go into things to do? You see things to do.
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My mind was swimming with confusion. Maybe I was still
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unconscious and this was all just a bad dream triggered
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by my conversation with Carl. You're quite the little parrot,
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aren't you. I cause death, disease, and destruction wherever I go.
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My most recent attempt was shortly after the Christian missionaries
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arrived in the islands you know as Hawaii. Bastards managed
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to trap me in that damnable volume, and there I
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lay for what year is it? It's twenty twenty four.
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Carl's brow deepened, and I swore I could see sparks
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of red fire in his eyes. That has been a
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very long time. Shall we start with you? Excuse me?
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Karl grabbed me by the collar and flung me across
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the main lobby. I landed in the children's area with
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a massive thud. Lucky for me, we had these giant
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foam blocks the children played with, and Jeannie stacked them
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in a huge pile when she was bored. I landed
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on them, and the only thing that hurt was the
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back of my head from my previous fall. I quickly
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got to my feet and saw what had once been
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Carl turn into a huge monster hurtling towards me. My
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feet were frozen in place with fear, and I knew
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that I was doomed. Demon came a bellowing voice from
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the front doors, stopping Lupoca in its tracks. We both
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turned to see a tall, lanky man with long, crazy
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gray hair and a matching tangled beard that went past
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his chest. He wore a long black coat, and in
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his hand was a staff of carved white wood with
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a large, large green gem embedded in the top. And
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you are Ullupoca. Slash Karl asked. Who I am is meaningless.
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What I am is the instrument of your destruction, old man.
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Better men have tried, even the gods tried and managed
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to take my head. But still I am alive and
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here to wreak destruction on this poultry globe. Ullupoca turned
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away from me to move towards the old man. Then
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I realized who he was. It was Jerome Blackwell, the historian.
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No one had seen him in decades. Most people believed
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him dead, but here he was alive and well, confronting
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a monster I had unknowingly unleashed upon the earth. I
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name you, Ullupoca, and bring with me your final time
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on earth. He walked over to the counter where the
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book still lay open, and lifted it into his right arm.
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What are are you going to do, old man? Throw
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the book at me? Ullupoca thought that was funny and
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erupted into a huge bellowing laugh. No, ignorant one. The
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spell that bound you to this ton was broken when
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this idiot opened the book. It took me a second
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to realize I was the idiot, and sheepishly turned my head.
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Yet you believe you can destroy me me, Ullupoka, yes,
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wind bag I do you see the missionaries that bound
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you to this book managed to get one thing right,
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the book and you slowly become one in the centuries
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that you were together. One cannot exist without the other.
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A light of understanding burned in Ulupoka's gaze, and he
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hurtled towards Jerome to take the book, but to no avail.
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Jerome produced a lighter and set fire to the pages
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of the open book. The ancient parchman was desiccated. Little