Reading Speed Test

In the heart of a restless city, where skyscrapers brushed the clouds and neon lights breathed color into the night, a quiet librarian named Maya kept her tiny library alive. Tucked between a coffee shop and an old antique store, her library was a warm secret — a place where she believed the magic of stories still whispered through the shelves. One rainy afternoon, an elderly man walked in, moving with the familiarity of someone revisiting an old dream. His name was Professor Alistair, a historian who had spent decades chasing legends of lost civilizations. While searching for a rare manuscript, he pulled down a dusty book — and a small, ornate key slipped out, shimmering with strange engravings. The professor froze. It was the key from a legend he had followed for years: a hidden library beneath the city where forgotten stories were said to sleep. Guided by old clues, cryptic notes, and passages concealed in the margins of ancient books, Maya and the professor set out on a quiet adventure. They discovered hidden rooms, met strangers who guarded fragments of the same myth, and slowly assembled the path toward the underground library — a place said to hold every story the world had misplaced. When they finally found it, shelves stretched into the dark like forests of memory, and books glowed faintly as though lit from within. Maya felt something unlock inside her — the certainty that stories weren’t just words but living worlds. She became the guardian of this forgotten place, and the professor, after a lifetime of searching, found the answers he never knew he needed. In the years that followed, whenever people asked Maya how she discovered such a wondrous library, she simply smiled and said, “All I wanted was a good book — and the stories led the way.