Illustration for The Fourteenth, from the adult visual novel Borrowed Hour

The market closes at noon on the fourteenth and the debt is called at eleven, and the column stands at forty-nine hours, which is two hundred and ninety pounds.

CorvinaThat is the best five nights in that ledger since the seventies and it is four per cent of the debt. I have to tell you that in plain words and I have.

MalfoidThen we pay four per cent and carry the rest and it is a smaller debt than it was on Monday. That is not nothing. That is nine days of my life back in the column.

MioneIt is nine days off the end of your life, Malfoid. You have given nine days and you have paid two hundred and ninety pounds.

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