Illustration for Day Nine, from the adult visual novel The House That Wants

By the ninth day the house has stopped asking. It opens whichever door you were thinking about.

Mione has catalogued four hundred items and written the word NO in the ledger sixty times.

Malfoid has stopped sleeping in the blue room and started sleeping wherever the fire is.

The mirror room is the only one still draped, and every morning the sheets have been moved a little.

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