Catherine
I've left you a message of utmost importance
in our fore-chamber beside the dock.
Enter the number of marker switches on this island
into the imager to retrieve the message.Yours,
Atrus
There were the two other books....
At opposite ends of the octogonal room sat the two
books on their display shelves.
One book was red, the other one blue.
Perhaps they were reference books of sorts,
or merely books that were favored
by whomever owned the library.
I went over towards the red book and
examined the thick volume.
Next to the book was a red page the same size of the book,
suggesting that it came from the book itself.
I opened the book up and noticed
that a few pages were indeed missing from the book.
The single page, and the many pages of the book
were filled with the strange symbols I had seen earlier.
They indeed looked like some form of complex written language,
unlike any language that I had ever seen before.
At the end of the book on the right hand page
was a small picture of a red cloud. I noticed at this
point that the opposite page was missing.
I took the single page from the shelf
and placed it inside the book where it belonged.
And then right in front of my eyes,the picture changed!
The clouds began to move around,swirling in an eliptical pattern.
The clouds disappated for a bit and then a new image appeared.
The image of a person. A man.
"Who are you?", the man asked.
There were other cries and words uttered,
but I couldn't make out anything the man was saying.
His image was fading in and out among the swirling clouds.
"Red pages!" the man cried, and then he began to disappear.
His image was soon lost in the clody mist in the small picture.
I dropped the book in horror. What kind of a place is this?
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