Illustration for Ending — Signed Off, from the adult visual novel The House That Wants

He signs it off at nine-fifteen and the house is boarded by nine-thirty, and by ten it is just a building again.

Mione is first out, coat half on, holding the signed form like it might be taken off her again.

MioneI have no idea what happens next and I find I don't mind.

Malfoid comes out last and pulls the door shut behind her with three people's belongings in one suitcase.

MalfoidThere's a flat above a shop in Clerkenwell with three rooms and no upstairs neighbours.

She says it as though it is a punishment she has decided to accept, and neither of you laughs, and you all go and look at it.

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