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The Ninth Window
A story from The Malfoid Universe
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27 scenes · 3 endings
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Scenes 27
Endings 3
Universe The Malfoid Universe
Mione
Malfoid
Porter
Corvina
The 1604 charter requires the school to keep one light burning on the shortest night in a room that appears on no plan, and requires the keeper not to sleep. Mione read the clause out loud in April and the room has been waiting for her since. Three eighteen-year-olds, nine hours of dark, and a margin wide enough to write in.
The document gets them into the room. The countdown means they cannot leave. The sex is what happens because they are both there and neither of them is any good at talking.
Chapters
1
The Clause
The charter is four hundred and twenty-two years old and Mione has read it twice, which is twice more than ...
2
Four Windows
Forty windows, four lit. That is what Corvina says when anyone asks what Gravenhollow is now.
3
The Door That Was Not
The door is oak and has no handle, no hinges and no number. The stone around it is newer than the stone bes...
4
The Keeper
Corvina does not pretend the clause is a surprise. She has a copy of it in the desk, folded to the right pa...
5
The Witness
The witness is not a chaperone. The witness is the one who has to write down what the room does, in the roo...
6
Three Names, Not Two
They read the clause together at the desk and Mione finds the thing she missed, because there is always a t...
7
Nine Hours
Malfoid says no. Malfoid says no for a full minute, and then asks what time it starts, which is not the sam...
8
The Terms
The door opens at the first candle and there is a room behind it: round, small, one iron bed, walls covered...
9
Inside
The room is warm. That is the first wrong thing. The rest of the building is not warm in May and this room ...
10
The First Question
It does not speak. It writes, on the wall behind the bed, at eye level, in a line of fresh ink that was not...
11
The Answer
Mione answers, because Mione answers, and she answers in plain words because the room does not accept any o...
12
The Pin
The next line on the wall is shorter. It says: say the other one.
13
What It Shows
The walls change. Not writing this time. Every surface of the room shows the same thing at once, from nine ...
14
The Room Is Fed
Mione is not gentle about it. She has had four months of being the one who is careful and she has run out o...
15
Everything Is Entered
You write for eleven minutes. The margin fills from the top down in your own hand and you read none of it b...
16
The Cold Hour
Two o'clock is a bad hour in a room with one blanket and three people and nothing left to do but talk.
17
Porter's Turn
The next question is not asked out loud. You think it, hard, and the wall answers anyway, which you will re...
18
The Second Question
At half past three the wall clears itself and starts again, and this time it asks all three of them the sam...
19
Porter Answers
You answer first, which surprises everyone in the room including you.
20
What She Would Give
The room turns to Malfoid and she is sitting up with the sheet around her waist and the pin in her fist.
21
Four O'Clock
The candles are down to stubs and the room is bright anyway, which nobody mentions.
22
The Last Question
The last question comes at twenty past four, when the room is grey and the window slit has a line of light ...
23
Sunrise
The door opens at sunrise without a sound and the corridor beyond it is exactly as cold as a corridor shoul...
24
What Is Owed
Corvina is awake and has been the whole time. There is tea, which is the least magical thing in the buildin...
25
Ending — The Record
The account goes to the governors in June. Two of them resign. One of them writes back to say it is the onl...
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26
Ending — The Fuel
They burn it in the grate in the study and the smoke smells like paper, and nothing dramatic happens at all.
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27
Ending — The Margin
They keep the book. It lives in Mione's room under a floorboard, and once a year somebody writes in the mar...
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