Illustration for The Goodbye, from the adult visual novel The House on Meridian

Cass's bags are in the hall and have been for four days, and she keeps not making the last trip.

CassSeptember the first I'm on a train and I'm not coming back. That was always the plan.

You ask what the plan is if the house survives.

CassThere isn't one. That's the bit I keep not looking at.

She pulls you onto the bed still fully dressed and holds on like the train is tomorrow.

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