One moment I was sleeping, then the next I was being probed by tentacles.

My life as a college student was normal. Almost boring. I never went to parties.I never hooked up with random guys from the frat houses. I never stayed out past midnight unless it was finals week and I was pulling an all-nighter in the library.

I liked my peace, my routine, and I liked being invisible.

So when the old leather-bound book fell off the top shelf in the restricted section of the campus library, I should have left it on the floor.

I didn’t.

It landed with a heavy thud at my feet, it had...