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  A little girl walks into a library, carefully, quietly, as if hiding from something, or maybe not wanting to be spotted. She grabs a book from the pedestal in front, carved symbols intricately on the sides. She scurries away with her book, like a rat after finding food, bringing it with her and hiding it inconspicuously, before sitting in a dark corner to read it. She opens the first page, and several areas look like they’ve been ripped out, but she doesn’t mind. She starts to read what is there. “The diary of …” The rest is scratched out, illegible to read, below writing. “Me.” The girl opened the book, curiosity flowing through her. The text was handwritten, messy and scribbly, barely legible, and yet she tried. ‘It all began in a cage fight…

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