first half broken; vigenere cipher

It’s blocked the door and now it’s looking for me amidst the library is its hunting ground covered in books and notes and words its very own camouflage a shark in its sea of thoughts think Twilight think what would

Celestia

do she’d flee it feeds on knowledge from host to host that’s what the book said and it knows I know and if it knew

Celestia

knew that I know then it would find its way to her but if I just reach the door then I can warn

Celestia

before it can find her the way it found the professor but I’ve got to be careful its crafty the book said it can read minds it said and if it gets me then it will surely get

her

too just don’t think about

Celestia

three steps that’s the key three steps to the door and I’m free just have to wait until it goes past the couch again and I’ll leap –


I’ve made a mistake coming here.

I managed to retrieve its book before it shredded the shelf it was on. The brass key nearly took my head off. A bibliophage, it’s called. A predator of knowledge that swims through rivers of text and thought. Professor Marigold was barely even conscious after it’d got to her.

That room was built to contain it, and she’s set it loose. If I look carefully, I can catch glimpses. Something gliding between the lines and letters of the hundred books strewn around this place. It knows I’m here, now. And it’s hunting. I can feel it, pressing on the back of my mind.

It’s getting closer.

If worst comes to worst, Celestia should still be able to find these notes intact. It can’t consume understanding that obfuscated. Even a simple encoding should be enough. We had a meeting at 10 O’clock sharp; she’ll know I’m missing. I never forget an appointment. I hope it doesn’t come to that. I’ve just got to make it across the room. The sofa on the far side looks promising; if I can make it there, it’s only a few steps to the door.

Oh.

Oh.

It’s clever.


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