Illustration for Ending — The Split Stone, from the adult visual novel Hollow Chapel

Corvina has it split in November with a chisel and a Ministry order, on the grounds that a foundation stone is a structural item and not a legal person.

The chapel is quieter afterwards and colder and nobody can say why, and the only thing anybody can point at is a draught from a floor.

MioneI did keep it. It happened. It was true when it happened and a chisel does not make it untrue.

MalfoidNo. But it does make it unprovable, which in this house is the only kind of safe.

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