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Chapter 4 by Reficul Reficul

What else could he try?

(Tf) Cause a solar eclipse.

Yes, a solar eclipse.

  1. It would be cool.
  2. It would be totally radical.

Enough said.

But how he would cause a solar eclipse was not really hammered out yet.

Maybe he could make it a personal thing, like; 'Can currently see a solar eclipse happening above him.' or something. But that wouldn't be a real test, that would just be him wanting to see an eclipse in real life.

-He did want to see an eclipse, but still; For science!

From what he understood the book just made the most obvious way for whatever he wrote to happen. Like when he got new clothes, as a beggar, how would he get new clothes?

Obviously, he stole it.

So if he set down that he was currently effected by a solar eclipse, that could mean basically anything. Because who knew if this weird magical book would listen to all the official terms in science and not just use some drone or something passing by to block out the sun.

He flipped to another page and brought up the current city he was inhabiting; 'New Dork'. Yes, they had attempted to mimic New York, but just failed miserably.

There was actually a lot of information, way more than his little chunk of words had. It even got the privilege of scrolling, in book. Well, it was magical anyways, not much of a surprise.

Employment rate, current inhabitants, non residents currently residing in a residence, the current major, everyone in the mayor, every union... Way to much, most of it just straight up not interesting him.

Currently in the middle of a full solar eclipse, where the sun is perfectly blocked by the moon.

It was dark, taking a look to the sky, there it was; The sun blocked out by the moon, it slowly being revealed over time.

He took a moment to look around, and found that others were also having a look and appreciating the sights. Though he did note that there were less people around, probably sitting on a hill or something, maybe. He didn't really know the geography of the local area, never really concerned him once while he was looking for his next fix.

Taking another look, what he had written had changed. The word 'Full solar eclipse' having turned to 'Near-full solar eclipse'.

So it would change on its own, and probably after a while, the line he had added would just be gone.

He took a moment to erase his line, being satisfied with the eclipse experience for now. And light returned, and the street population had returned to its original amount.

Seeing the version number having risen to '298' was really giving a sense of scale, he had changed reality 4 times since he stopped his withdrawal symptoms.

It was really easy to get lost in it, and he really didn't like the high number, made it feel second-hand.

Did he have second-hand shit before? Yes, as a beggar he even had seventh-hand hand-me-downs, and he didn't like it. And he'd rather not have it be obvious that he was picking up the scraps of some other person who was dumb enough to let go of this mystical creation.

-Or maybe they didn't? His sub-conscious could be pretty creative from time to time, seeing from this magical book.

Was he forgetting something important?

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