Illustration for Ending — Three On The Rope, from the adult visual novel The Bell-house

All three of them take the rope in January, and the ordinance says whoever holds it, and it does not say how many that is.

CorvinaThe end of my instructions will not know what to do with this. I intend to sit here and enjoy that for several years.

It rings for nine minutes and stops, because three people who had already decided do not need to be persuaded by a bell.

The rope keeps three separate worn patches at three different heights and in thirty years people will ask why and nobody will have to lie.

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