Avalina was a normal teenager. She hung out with her friends, she went to school and she had a part-time job in a bookstore. She had green eyes, brown hair, a fairly average face and was in all a pretty average kind of a girl. She was also a fan of the Discworld series which, in the end, turned out to be a good thing.

One day after school, she was at work when the owner of the store asked her to get something from the back of the shop. Avalina had never been in the back before, but, rather than ask where to find everything, she went for the classic method of blundering about until you found what you wanted. So, she blundered, wondering why it was so dark, what it was she was looking for and how far 'the back' went. Gradually, things grew lighter. There were shelves of books here that went... through each other? Avalina shook her head and carried on blundering.

She found a shelf and picked a book off at random. It was called 'The Two-Faced Hog, and Other Folk Dances' and was written by... W. M. Longpelt? She looked inside. There was a photo of Mr. Longpelt. He appeared to be a wolf with glasses on. Avalina frowned an put the book back. She wandered on until she was in a well lit... space, mainly in primary colours. It couldn't have been a room because usually a room has walls that you can see. There were bookshelves everywhere. Some passed through others and some were invisible in places, like they were in other dimensions. Avalina felt oddly as though there were invisible bits of her in other dimensions as well. It was unnerving to say the least.

"If I didn't know any better," she said out loud, "I'd say this was L-space." The noise attracted attention. Avalina heard a rustling and dived aside, just avoiding being trampled by the spooked herd. "Were those... thesauruses?" she whispered to herself. A movement caught her attention. There was a simian face peering over one of the shelves. She stood up and the face ducked down. Avalina guessed who it was, wildly hoped she was right and called out "Hey, Mr. Librarian!"

She ran over to where he had been, but he was gone. Again she spotted him looking. She ran over to him. "Mr. Librarian, please!" she called after him. This time she got to the stop and saw him retreating further into - there could be no denying it anymore - L-space. She followed, in hopes of coming out somewhere she knew.

"I need your help!" Avalina yelled after the orangutan. "I don't have any string!" This was beginning to irritate her. Why didn't he just stop and point her in the right direction? It couldn't be that hard, could it? Avalina ran, no breath left to yell, and tripped on a ball of paper, which rolled away grumbling. She thumped the ground in frustration. "Why can't you just help you stupid monkey?!" she yelled, instantly regretting it and really, really hoping that he hadn't heard her.

No avenging hairy figure appeared to bounce her on her head. Avalina suddenly felt very lonely. It was hard not to in this empty place with only paper and books to talk to. She picked herself up off the ground and walked in the direction that the Librarian had disappeared into. She didn't know how long she walked or where she was. The place begin to get on her nerves. Soon she was really angry, with L-space, with the Librarian and mostly with herself for getting lost in the first place.

Avalina didn't pay attention to where she was going anymore. She just walked, grumbling to herself and kicking the ground. She turned and punched a bookshelf, which turned out to not be there. Unable to stop herself, Avalina fell forward into the dirt that had suddenly replaced the bright colours of L-space.

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Note: I'm not copying goblindreamer, honest. xP