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

You recommend sale with enchantments intact and the Ministry does what it always does, which is the cheapest option.

It goes in March to a man in a good coat who never once asks what the mirrors are for.

The three of you are paid a completion bonus, which feels like being tipped.

MioneWe gave it away. Something that only ever wanted to be used, and we sold it to a man with a coat.

MalfoidIt will be fine. It has had a hundred and twenty years of practice at getting what it wants.

Somewhere in Clerkenwell a lamp turns itself on.

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