Illustration for Ending — The Margin, from the adult visual novel The Ninth Window

They keep the book. It lives in Mione's room under a floorboard, and once a year somebody writes in the margin.

MalfoidNext shortest night I am bringing a better blanket and a bottle, and I am going to say something worse than last time.

MioneYou said you would give the name.

They do it again in December, and in March, and the room stops being a night and starts being a thing the three of them do, which the governors never find out.

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