Everything went dark, like the violet color of a blackbird’s wing. There was a tightness, as if all the air was being sucked out of the room. The shadows in the corners stirred…alive. The floor opened up; a gaping hole; a giant mouth sixty feet across; pages for teeth. A demon rose from its depths. The air became like needles; cutting and piercing. Creatures clawed there way out of the mouth; snakes of shadow and smoke; clawed insects of fire; beasts that could have only been born in the lowest pits of hell were making their way out…all to guard this library. The demon was so grotesque, so unimaginable; horns covering its head like hair; wings, long as the wings of a large plane, smoldering; entrails hanging from the bare body; bile covering it from top to bottom. This was fear….fear that had taken the form of a creature. Amanda looked at everything that was going on around her. She bowed her head and muttered,_” Penetro”_ The lights came up, there was a coffee table in the middle of the room with a couple of small couches around it. Three of the walls were taken up completely by bookcases with rather old books filling them. There was even a small TV on a nightstand and a small fridge in the corner under the stairs. _”I really don’t see why mom and dad ever put that in here”_ She said…looking at the fridge. She sat down on one of the couches leaned close to the coffee table and whispered, _”I need whatever was read last.”_ She leaned back onto the couch. A couple of minutes passed…she sighed…. Speaking largely to the room _”Now, you pile of firewood!”_ The coffee table, having far too many legs to be natural, lifted four of them. The clawed feet tapped together and books started to fly off the shelves. _”STOP!”_ The claws stopped tapping and two dozen books froze in mid air. _”I want the last three books read from…kindling.”_ Only one of the claws started tapping this time. All but three of the books flew back to the shelves…those three came to rest on the table. Amanda picked up the first book, got comfortable, and started to read.