Illustration for Ending — Every Winter, from the adult visual novel The Anchors

They leave the page blank and the gate opens and the taint stays where it is, and the seal holds for a year exactly.

They come back in November because there was never any question of not coming back, and the chalk is still faintly there.

MalfoidThirty nights. Every year. I find I do not object to the arrangement as much as I said I would.

MioneIt is a deadline. We are all extremely good at deadlines.

Corvina lights the candles at a quarter to midnight and says that she will hold the outer ring and that somebody had better be willing.

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