Illustration for Ending — The Lower Corridor, from the adult visual novel Blinds

I give the room up in November, which is the most irrational thing I do all year, and my number falls thirty places in a fortnight because I stop performing.

HalvardYou could have kept it and changed nothing. It was not costing you anything.

TamsinIt was costing me the ability to say that I had one and gave it back.

Rab moves down with me. The room goes to a first year who has no idea what she is holding, and she lowers the blind and leaves it down for a week.

I never tell her what it is. Somebody should have to find out the way I did, at eleven, from two pages of a code nobody read.

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