The fluorescent lights of the university library hummed with a frequency that always gave Elias a headache. It was 2:00 AM, the night before his midterm paper on Cold War paranoia in literature was due, and he was striking out.

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Elias pulled his hands away from the keyboard as if it burned him. The screen flickered. The library lights seemed to dim. The hum of the radiator changed pitch, sounding suspiciously like the low, thrumming vibration of a nuclear storage facility.

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