Illustration for Ending — No Bowl, from the adult visual novel The Jealous Bowl

Malfoid puts it on the hearth and hits it with the poker four times, and then Corvina picks up the poker and does the last one herself.

CorvinaMy mother would be furious. Not about the bowl. About the fact that we did not need it.

They do not need it. December is worse without it and better without it, and it takes until March for the jealousy to stop being a shape in the room.

By spring nobody is watching anybody through windows. That is the whole victory and it is enough.

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