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- Tower Climber
- Jakob Tanner
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“About forty percent of the collection is,” said the librarian. “The library contains a substantial amount of writing from the pre-tower era. It was only after the formation of Zestiris in 2055 that the knowledge protection act was put in place and the flow of information between the tower-zone and the rest of the world began to halt.”
Max nodded along to the fascinating information. Over the years that he’d lived in the outer-rim, he’d spent a lot of time trying to learn as much of the history of Zestiris as he could find.
The initial emergence of the tower had brought huge complications to the world.
The magical abilities of the climbers turned the tower into a source of great geopolitical strife.
Some of the earliest explorers of the tower became super soldiers for the U.S. military.
Other countries demanded the United States share the tower with others, claiming the tower was a global humanitarian issue.
The U.S. ignored these claims for many years, but after one too many tower explorers came back with incredible powers and wreaked destruction on the public, something had to be done.
In 2055, the city of Zestiris was formed. It was a cooperative project, designed and created by the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.
The city was a way of controlling and tracking those who went in and out of the tower. The rule applied to information as well.
“Interesting,” said Max.
“Glad to hear you think so,” said the girl. “Most people aren’t interested in the history of information management, or as it is more colloquially called, information studies.”
They kept walking further through the stacks of books.
“Are some of these books from other floors?”
The girl stopped and turned back to smile at Max.
“Some are and they are the most fascinating!” she said. “A lot of them are in the restricted section though, but not all of them. A lot of them aren’t written in English or any Earth language, but there have been a few translations. Pretty cool, isn’t it!?”
Max wasn’t as enthusiastic about it as the librarian, but he did think it was pretty cool. Not only did this place contain vast amounts of human knowledge, but it even contained knowledge from other floors in the tower, from entirely other worlds.
They kept moving, until eventually the girl turned down between the stacks of shelves.
Max followed behind, coughing from the dust swirling in the air.
“Here you go,” said the librarian girl. She pointed to a half empty shelf with a few dusty books. “Here’s our small collection of books on the endless forest. Happy researching!”
The girl then left Max alone in the hall of books as she returned to her spot at the front counter.