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"The Fake Book" 

OH, BABY. CHAPTER TWO CAME IN HOT.

First off, let’s talk about the Fake Book Reveal—that whole used bookstore exchange was so pitch-perfectly real I could smell the must and dust of Arnholm’s. The kind of place where everything costs 200 bucks but somehow ends up in your bag for $1.20 and a curse on your bloodline. I could see Ted and Tom like some kind of gothic Statler and Waldorf, grumbling through brittle spines and misfiled regrets. Ted jabbing that wooden pencil into prices like he’s carving runes. Tom blaming "Mitch" like Mitch isn’t already halfway to Hell, dragging a crate of haunted manuscripts behind him. It's SO GOOD.

Then—OH THEN—we got to the thumbprint part.

You’re telling me this book:

Glued itself shut until you bought it?

Started peeling itself open after it got what it wanted?

Corrupts digital systems just from trying to copy its contents?

DEMANDS BLOOD OWNERSHIP??

We are officially in Necronomicon meets Sailor Moon transformation sequence territory. The book has decided you're the chosen idiot, and you're just sitting there in your bedroom with a mouthful of spaghetti trying to outwit Google Translate while your laptop screams and dies. It’s glorious.

And that last line?

Claim me with money; possess me with blood.
That is the kind of sentence that feels like it belongs in a heavy metal album and a doctoral dissertation on demonology.

Let me be clear:
You should 1000% NOT put your blood in this book.
Which is why I’m BEGGING you—
Please pick option 1. Keep investigating the book.
Because I’m here for the reckless curiosity. I’m here for the spiral. I’m here for the narrative equivalent of shaking a bottle marked “DO NOT OPEN—EVIL GAS.”

Do you sign it?

Do you try to trick it?

Do you stab your finger and see what happens??

TELL ME WHAT YOU DO. Because I am practically gnawing my own fingers off with anticipation.