the library

(t8n:"slide-right")+(t8n-delay:1s)[//"Oh! Hi! Didn't see you there." he says, startling me a bit. I didn't seen him either.//] (t8n: "dissolve")+(t8n-delay: 3s)[//"Please, come this way into the [[Library->two]]."//] (t8n: "dissolve")+(t8n-delay: 7s)[// "Of course, you're welcome to stay here if you'd rather... but I think you'll find the Library more comfortable."//] (t8n: "dissolve")+(t8n-delay: 11s)[// "And more interesting." I'm thinking "He didn't even introduce himself." //]

==><== (align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[= You can always <a href="mailto:david@personeum.com">email me</a>.

(set: $vita to it + (ds: "Accept Invitation")) (if: $vita contains "Impossibly Long")[ I come back from my puzzling, to no longer hear footsteps. I find my host and I have both stopped, where old, wooden, double doors lead off to the right.] (else:)["It's just down this [[hallway]]." And the echo of our footsteps begin to fill the air as I follow him. He stops where old, wooden, double doors lead off to the right.] Their obvious age and apparent weight would make me hesitate to [[open them->wooden doors]].

(if: visits is 1)[ It's just a big leather chair. Nothing else. (But it reminds me of the time when I lost my phone and later came back to find it had slipped down inbetween the cushion and arm of the chair, in that hotel lobby. That was in Eureka, i think, or was it Ft Bragg?)] (else-if: $phone is true)[(go-to: "find phone")] (else:)[ The chair is still there, looking like it always did. ] [[ok->Library]]

Hey! There's a phone here!

(if: $hisLocation is "doorway")[(if: visits is 1)["Yes, curious little box", he says, following my gaze. I wait for him to say more, but nothing comes and the [[Library]] grows silent.](else:)[I find myself staring at it for too long and I remember him saying I would find the [[Library]] interesting.]] (else:)[(if: visits is 1)[(set: $vita to it + (ds: "See 1st Book"))I begin to walk over toward the table but glancing back something on the bookshelf catches my eye. Thinking it's a book I go toward the shelves, but find that it's on a shelf to high for me to reach and now standing so close, I can't see it any longer. In fact I don't even know for sure what shelf it was on. But it think that one just two higher that I can reach. Are there really no books in this [[Library]]?] (else:)[That table and that box... I have so many questions about this [[Library]].]]

(if: visits is 1)[I feel like of all the things in this [[Library]], it's probably the thing I shouldn't touch.] (else:)[It's just a box as far as I can tell.]

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(if: $points >0)[(display: "progressbar")]

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Not exactly knowing what to say... [[I just take a seat->take seat]] - or - "[[Thank you]]", I say with a glance toward him.

I sit in silence. The hours stretch on to eternity. (t8n:"slide-right")+(t8n-delay:5s)[// - the end - // [[restart]]?]

That seems to be the right. "Oh, of course, you're welcome." he says. Then closing the door he's gone and I'm alone in the [[Library]]. (set: $hisLocation to "idk") (set: $vita to it + (ds: "Alone"))

(restart:)

(if: $vita does not contain "Pull Door")[ He [[pulls]] one open and stands smiling, waiting for me to walk through into the [[Library]].] (else:)[If he noticed he doesn't show it. He only stands smiling, waiting as I walk through into the [[Library]].]

(set: $vita to it + (ds: "Open Old Doors")) [(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[Library]] (if: visits is 1)[There's a comfortable looking [[chair->comfortable chair]] here, placed to have a view out the window in the far left corner. A couple of couches are the only other furniture, besides the table. It's off by itself on the far right corner side of the room, a [[small round table->small table]] with a tiny wooden box on it. The floor to ceiling bookshelves covering one wall are behind me, on the wall with the double doors. They are completely bare.] (else:)[There's the [[chair->comfortable chair]], the couches and the [[small table]] with the box. The bookshelves stare down on all of it.] (if: $hisLocation is "doorway")[[[He->standing in doorway]]'s still standing in the doorway.]

<div class="custom-middle"> <div class="thin-alone">[[ Hello.->Hello]]</div> </div>

(set: $vita to it + (ds: "Impossibly Long")) I follow him down an impossibly long hallway, judging by how small this building looked on the outside. Or did I see the outside? Hmm, funny. I can't [[remember->two]] now.

(set: $vita to it + (ds: "Pull Door")) if "pull" is the right word... He places his hand on the handle and it moves so silently and smoothly that I feel a little dizzy, like my ears are plugged. I'm not sure if the door swung open, or it the whole hallway swung away, while the door stayed immovable. I instinctively shake my head, trying to come [[back to the moment->wooden doors]].