Illustration for Ending — The Footprints, from the adult visual novel The Jealous Bowl

You take your bag out of the guest room at first light and none of them are awake and you get as far as the door.

You do not wake them and you do not leave a note, because a note would be an admission that it had been a decision.

MalfoidYou came out here to be let in and then you spent a week being angry that nobody worked out how.

The snow has filled your prints before you reach the gate, and Mione is the one who says, two weeks later, that it was the bowl that was right and the four of them who were cowards.

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