Illustration for Two Hundred and Forty-One, from the adult visual novel Blinds

Rab Ferris is at two hundred and forty-one, which is comfortable, which is exactly the size of number a person can hold without noticing that holding it is a job.

RabI spent four years learning how to be seen exactly as much as I needed to be. It is a skill. I am very good at it. It has made me nobody.

TamsinAnd now you want an hour where you are nobody on purpose.

RabI want an hour where I am nobody and it does not count against me.

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