Illustration for What The Stone Is Doing, from the adult visual novel Hollow Chapel

Mione notices during a pause and it stops everything for a moment: the wall is not recording her. The wall is writing instructions for the next person.

MioneIt is not a ledger. It is a precedent. It is a case law. Two hundred years of people finding out what works and leaving notes for whoever stands here next.

CorvinaThat is what the chapel is for. That is what this whole building is for and none of us have ever been told.

The third cut is a long one and the wall has not started it yet, and there is an hour left and everybody in the room knows what it costs.

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