I returned to my apartment library and was just beginning
to search the stacks for the books Tina had found. I was sure we had left them
on the large, central table; but they weren't where we'd left them. I was
slowly walking up and down the book shelves looking for any book with a
familiar look, checking all which had a red spine, like the one I'd been
reading.
As I looked, I puzzled over why all the books should have
been put away, or moved. Why? Here I go with the questions I can't answer. I
walked to the center of the room and stood looking at the now empty table where
the books had been.
"If they aren't on the table, and they not in the
shelves, then they've been removed from here."
I moved to the chair I'd come to think of as mine, and
sat down to try and figure out what was going on.
"Who and why were the books taken from the library?
Who had the opportunity? What was their reason?"
I got up and was leaving the library still puzzled over
the missing books, feeling defeated and angry that the information I wanted,
and needed had been right under my nose. The only two people who should have
had opportunity, shouldn't have had a motive to take them.
I'd stopped walking and was absently gazing out one of
the many windows, which looked out over the city. At least one of the books had
contained information about the strange machinery of torture I'd found two
floors up; while four of the volumes had been full of information about the
towers. There were only two reasons I could think of why those books were gone,
one was to keep me from having the information, and the other was to protect it
from who?
"From Sandy."
That last I said aloud.
"Yes from Sandy." I thought to myself.
I moved slowly to the next window wishing Tina were here
to ask. If she knew where the books were she'd tell me, and if she didn't she'd
help try and find them. I breathed in the cool air, and suddenly felt very
tired. I turned from the window and went to my bed.
My last thought before sleep took me, was, "Maybe
tomorrow will be a better day."
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