Illustration for Twenty-Seventh, from the adult visual novel The Anchors

Twenty-seven is Malfoid on her back on the flagstones with her legs wide and both of them above her and neither of them stopping.

MalfoidI am not going to — this is — whoever is doing that, do not stop doing that.

She comes apart hard enough that two of the candles go out, and then lies there swearing at the ceiling in a language nobody in the room has studied.

CorvinaTwo candles. That is not a seal failure. That is the building being sympathetic.

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