Illustration for What She Won't Say, from the adult visual novel The Anchors

Afterwards she sits on the edge of the bed with her arms folded and her head down and the pin still on the blanket.

MalfoidThe thing I was pretending is not about you. It is that I am not frightened of the thirty-first night.

You ask what happens on the thirty-first night. She says the seal becomes permanent and everyone goes back to their lives.

MalfoidAnd I will have had three people in a building for a month and then a very large empty house. Say something useful or go to bed.

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