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As Isaac and the man talked they decided to complete the binding as soon as possible. The man led Isaac over to an empty part of the back of the library before he placed his hand on the ground and did something that Isaac couldn't tell. Suddenly the floor around them began sinking as they went lower and lower before the hole above them sealed up.
"This is the way to the heart of the library where the binding will take place." The man said with a smile. "I will warn you that once you do this there is no going back, also it might hurt."
"I understand and I don't want to go back." Isaac replied. "It has been my dream for years to be able to work in a library and this place is more than I could've ever asked for."
"Alright then" The man said before going silent.
They waited as the piece of floor they were on went lower and lower before they came down to a pitch black room with a small glowing orb in the middle. As they walked closer and closer they could hear the sound of a heart beating although it sounded incredibly weak and on its last legs. The man next to Isaac looked at the orb and his eyes began to cry as he looked on.
"Are you okay?" Isaac asked sounding worried.
"Yes I am I am just heartbroken to see the heart of this place in such a state. The last time I was here with the last keeper it was full of life and magnificent but now it feels to be on its last legs."
"All the more reason to do the binding faster right? If we complete it quicker the library will stop deteriorating right?" Isaac asked sounding concerned.
"Yes you are right. We need to hurry. Are you ready to begin?"
"Yes I am." Isaac said. "I am ready for anything."
"Good." The man nodded. "Then let us begin."
Walking closer to the orb they noticed a book sitting underneath it on a podium.
"Hey that is the book I received in the mail. So this is where it ended up."
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"Well now we know where it went when the book vanished into light the man replied. That is good because it is necessary for the binding."
Passing a knife and a quill to Isaac the man began to explain the process.
"You need to write your full name in the book in your blood and then place your hand on the orb and say I say your full name accept the position as keeper of the library." The man explained before stepping back to watch.
Isaac stepped forward towards the orb and the book before taking a deep breath. He opened the book and carefully sliced his hand. The hand holding the knife was trembling and he grunted in pain but he forced himself to do it. Then he took the quill and wrote his full name on the first page of the book. As he finished the book shimmered a little before going silent. He was nervous but he continued. Placing his hand on the orb he spoke.
"I Isaac Leonidas Cromwell hereby accept the position of the keeper of the library."
Right after he finished speaking the orb began to tremble as the heart beating sound grew stronger. Suddenly tentacles came out of the orb and began wrapping around Isaac as he panicked a bit before the man explained it was normal and to not break contact. Isaac listened as he kept contact with the orb as the tentacles kept going further towards his body. They slithered all over his body first beginning with his head and as they reached the middle of forehead they punctured a hole and slithered inside.
As he cried out in pain a massive headache formed getting worse and worse as he felt like a marble was being implanted in his brain. Soon after the tentacles left the hole as it soon sealed up and they headed down from his head.
They kept slithering down his body before reaching right near his heart repeating the same process of digging inside his skin as he cried out in pain. He coughed out a mouthful of blood as he felt another marble being implanted in his heart before they left again.
They slithered farther down his body reaching just below his navel as the tentacles dug another hole. This one felt like a punch in the gut as his eyes and nose began bleeding as he felt another orb being implanted right below his navel.
Soon after the tentacles retreated as the book he wrote his name in turned into light and shot towards his hand. He felt a connection with the book as a tattoo of a book appeared on the back of his hand. After everything was done he fell to his knees panting in exhaustion. The man appeared next to him in a flash before helping him up.
"You did wonderfully Sir. Now that you have officially accepted the position of the keeper I can finally introduce myself. I am the assistant to the keeper of the library and my name is William. I am here to assist you with whatever you need."
"Nice to finally learn your name William but please just call me Isaac. I don't really like being called sir."
"Very well Isaac I will do as you wish. Now let us get out of here."
As they headed towards the platform they came up on the or in the background began to pulse with a little more vigor than before.
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