Mione answers, because Mione answers, and she answers in plain words because the room does not accept any others.

MioneI came up here because a room wanted me. Nobody has wanted me for anything in four months and I read a sentence and the sentence wanted me.

You write it down. Your hand is steady and you hate that it is steady.

MalfoidAnd that is the whole of it? You came up a stair to be needed by masonry?

MioneYes. And you came because I asked. We can both be pathetic in front of a wall.