Explore Compression

(Contains flattenings. Commission for ultrabude, thank you for your support!) The first drops of rain started to paint the concrete paths outside of a quaint, smalltown library darker to herald the coming summer storm. Inside, one Rebecca perused the various sections, more or less aimless with her search of a good book to take home over the summer. Rebecca was not a superstitious person, elsewise she’d not be in the library so close to closing time. The town had suffered a series of recent disappearances in relatively quick succession, which was certainly unnerving no matter who you were. Word spreads fast in such and insular community, and it was no secret many of the locals found the young solitary librarian to be a bit creepy. The woman was the only known employee of the library and was of very few words. As Rebecca came to think of it, she’d never heard the librarian speak, and wondered if she was simply mute. It was completely unfair for the townsfolk to be gossiping in such a