Illustration for The Third Cut, from the adult visual novel Hollow Chapel

She says the reason out loud and the reason is four words long and everybody in the chapel hears it and nobody repeats it afterwards.

Then she finishes it herself, on her knees, in the aisle, with her own hand and her forehead against the pew and Porter kneeling in front of her holding her hair back out of her eyes.

MalfoidDo not stop for us. We are not the vow. We are the witnesses and we are only here because it would not have counted otherwise.

She is loud and unashamed and it is the least sensible thing the chapel has heard in two hundred years, and the wall takes it.

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