Appendix 5-II: The Bathroom (of the Library

Appendix 5-II: The Bathroom (of the Library)

(R3mix, June 4th, 2011)

As Elshanor stepped into the Library, the floor creaked with the same eerie noise the door had made.

Across from the portal there is a door that is out of place in the library. This door stands out with its clean and metallic look. Elshanor lingers at the doorway, hand slowly reaching towards the round handle. She tentatively turns the handle, and is greeted with the near-blinding glow of industrial lighting.

The first thing she notices is the white light being reflected at her off the gleaming porcelain throne. The room sparkles with that same industrial glow that greeted her reflected off of its every surface. It is so unlike the previous room she has to stop and admire. The dust from the library is replace by a shine of cleanliness. A paperback copy of Les Misérables rests on the counter, beside the silver of the sink.3 Elshanor debates on taking the dogeared tome back into its rightful place, where she has just exited, but she is interrupted by that same creak of the double doors in the room behind her.4

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As both the educated reader and Elshanor herself no doubt recall, a pivotal moment in the plot of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables rests on a pair of silver candlesticks.

4 In the comments: Elsha Hawk: “Oo, ominous! Who knows what or who could be creaking into the library! I like how you give her a moment to deliberate on replacing the book, for she is a fastidious librarian, though it seems she has been away a long time…”