Illustration for The First Question, from the adult visual novel The Ninth Window

It does not speak. It writes, on the wall behind the bed, at eye level, in a line of fresh ink that was not there a moment ago.

MioneIt says: what did you come up here for.

MalfoidIt is a room. Rooms do not interrogate.

The line of ink does not change, and the candle burns down a quarter of an inch while they all fail to answer.

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