Illustration for The Sixth Item, from the adult visual novel The Inventory

MioneWarmed against the breast, the seal kept and the wax not broken, and then a word I cannot read, and then it stops.

CorvinaIt is a keeping. The same keeping that half the deeds in this house have been sealed with.

PorterThen it is a formality and we write a formality and we leave.

CorvinaIt will not take a description. I have tried. It takes the act or it takes nothing and it does not open the door for nothing.

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