Illustration for The Lying Room, from the adult visual novel The Jealous Bowl

At five they are all in the big bedroom with the bowl on the end of the bed, and it has stopped working, which Corvina says is what happens when everybody starts lying.

CorvinaIt cannot show something contradictory. It was built for a house with one wanting and it has found four.

MioneSo it is not the bowl. It is that we are all pretending to want a smaller thing than we do.

Nobody argues with that, and the silence goes on long enough that it becomes the argument.

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