The bookshelf appears normal.
Curious, you take a book at random.
The book's spine cracks and moans, not having been opened in centuries.
The pages are filled with random numbers, evenly spaced, with no rhyme or reason to their placement.
101 240 232 393 49588 372 358 100 237
071 307 233 998 090 9330 865 9909 991
01001010 01100101 01110010 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010011
01100101 01101001 01101110 01100110 01100101 01101100 01100100
01001001 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101001
01101110 01100111 587 384 2984 97384 9834 9735 834 844 393 090
Next book.
Adventures of Mr. Big Pants.
My big pants! They fell down! I-
You stop reading and grab a different book.
"Utter Destruction. The autobiography of Terry Cruise."
I destroyed Jupiter.
Even though it had to be done, I still regret it.
Billions of lives on Earth, or the billions on Jupiter.
It was the decision I made, that killed them.
Look up in the night sky, and see the sky clean, wiped of any trace of them.
I remember all of them.
You notice Niles walk over to the bookshelf while you're reading.
