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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of rape, graphic violence, death, suicidal ideation, and death by suicide.
In the 1,145th year, a resident of the library named Dire Dan forms a cult and gains popularity in Soren’s region of the library. He claims to have received a vision from God, who told him, “The days of this peace in Hell are ended. Kill them again and again. Rape them, torture them, cause them pain and fire. Leave not a moment of peace” (69). After building a following (called Direites), Dire Dan begins a campaign of violence against anyone who is not a member of the cult. Eventually, the Direites find Rachel and Soren and pursue them. Desperate to escape, Rachel jumps into the void in the middle of the library. Soren, however, is captured.
The Direites enslave Soren and torture him for over a month, until one day he is brought to Dire Dan himself, who tries to convince him to join the cult. Seeing an opportunity both to escape and end Dire Dan’s reign of terror, Soren tackles Dan over the edge of a railing and into the abyss. Mid-fall, Dire Dan kills Soren, but when they wake up the next day, they are still falling together through the abyss. The library has an unfathomable number of