Illustration for Ending — The Trap, from the adult visual novel The Long Engagement

You put your own name down and the contract closes over it like a door.

The estate is yours and the debt is yours and the portrait gallery is full of a family who will never acknowledge you.

MalfoidYou idiot. He trapped one person with that clause and it was never going to be me.

MioneI can have it broken. It would take five years and you would lose the house and everything in it.

You burn the contract in the study grate the same night. The house stays standing and the name stays on nothing at all.

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