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The sun had just barely started rising.
Not that they could see it from here, though.
Rather, they found themselves buried in a seemingly endless trail of copy paper.
Blocking out anything and everything.

- What is that on your hand?
- Paper cut.
- Paper cut? That big gash?
- Don’t worry about it.

“Don't worry about it” indeed…
One could feel the anger radiate out of the centaurs' eyes.
“Don’t worry about it”…

- Ehm… What is all this paper?

The centaur laughed.
“Oh you want to know what this paper is? Is that what you want?”
She could sense the problem already…

- Some genius put a copy of the hyper altarian dictionary into the copier… On auto copy function… You know the one that turns the pages for you…. Yeah… And then he asked for fifty copies… Of the whole thing…

Ah. There it was…

- When he realized what he had done, of course, he left… and the copy machine is still at it…
- I was going to use that copyer…
- Mhm… Good luck with that… They have switched the paper twice. And the ink thrice.
- Can't they just stop the copy?
- Haha… Yeah… You would think that wouldn't you…Before anyone noticed, the whole book was completely scanned in…
- All 2300 pages of it?
- … Heh… Of course you would know the length… It is a quick copy machine I guess… And now it is dead set on its goal…
- Have they tried turning it off?
- Mhm, it just keeps going when they turn it on again.
- Pulling the plug?
- Same response.

She could feel her bag still dripping pond water down her back.

- … Well… I already paid 4000 crowns in fine for this damned book… I might as well bring it with me…
- Good call.

They stared at each other for a while.

- I thought you were leaving?
- Hehe… Leaving… Coming back… Who can tell the difference…

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the library series is inspired by real events.

Description
Previous part
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The sun had just barely started rising.
Not that they could see it from here, though.
Rather, they found themselves buried in a seemingly endless trail of copy paper.
Blocking out anything and everything.

- What is that on your hand?
- Paper cut.
- Paper cut? That big gash?
- Don’t worry about it.

“Don't worry about it” indeed…
One could feel the anger radiate out of the centaurs' eyes.
“Don’t worry about it”…

- Ehm… What is all this paper?

The centaur laughed.
“Oh you want to know what this paper is? Is that what you want?”
She could sense the problem already…

- Some genius put a copy of the hyper altarian dictionary into the copier… On auto copy function… You know the one that turns the pages for you…. Yeah… And then he asked for fifty copies… Of the whole thing…

Ah. There it was…

- When he realized what he had done, of course, he left… and the copy machine is still at it…
- I was going to use that copyer…
- Mhm… Good luck with that… They have switched the paper twice. And the ink thrice.
- Can't they just stop the copy?
- Haha… Yeah… You would think that wouldn't you…Before anyone noticed, the whole book was completely scanned in…
- All 2300 pages of it?
- … Heh… Of course you would know the length… It is a quick copy machine I guess… And now it is dead set on its goal…
- Have they tried turning it off?
- Mhm, it just keeps going when they turn it on again.
- Pulling the plug?
- Same response.

She could feel her bag still dripping pond water down her back.

- … Well… I already paid 4000 crowns in fine for this damned book… I might as well bring it with me…
- Good call.

They stared at each other for a while.

- I thought you were leaving?
- Hehe… Leaving… Coming back… Who can tell the difference…

—————————————————
the library series is inspired by real events.