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The Retention Schedule
The Tide Library floods every seventh night, its books swim home to their shelves, and every reader who reads there loses a part of themselves into the book they were holding.
- ~79 min (estimated)
- 17592 words
- 22 scenes
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
20 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
This term, for the first time in three hundred years, the Library has started keeping those parts: the Standing Order of the Ninth Term takes a reader's weight into safe custody, enters it in the Night Ledger with the owner's name, and promises it back. It is working. The warding returns are down sixty per cent, nobody has drowned, and eleven hundred and six people are holding something in a chest on a high shelf in a building that floods. It is also the loudest machine ever built on this coast for saying a stranger's name out loud in a stranger's mouth. The Tide Library stands on eighty-one iron stilts on the Sarn Shelf, a black sand flat two miles wide that the sea returns to every seventh night. The nearest working town is Greyhaven, three miles up the stone. The Library's only real business is lending, and it has three hundred years of borrowers in its Night Ledger, and it has never
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- Loud crowding in a public reading room, and a part being spoken aloud in a stranger's voice in front of strangers.
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