Illustration for Named, from the adult visual novel The Jealous Bowl

Corvina makes them do it properly. One at a time, in the firelight, no interruptions, no graciousness.

MioneI want Malfoid, and I want Corvina, and I have wanted Porter for so long that I have started pretending he is a colleague.

MalfoidI want Mione. I want Porter. I am frightened of Corvina and I would like to stop being frightened of a woman who is nine years older than me and can still do that in a chair.

CorvinaI want Mione. I have wanted her badly since about the second week of December and I have been extremely dignified about it.

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