Illustration for The Cold Hour, from the adult visual novel The Ninth Window

Two o'clock is a bad hour in a room with one blanket and three people and nothing left to do but talk.

MalfoidAsk it something. It answers questions. Nobody has asked it anything since we came in and I am not spending four hours being polite to a wall.

MioneWhat happens to the keeper if the keeper sleeps?

The wall writes one word, and the word is a name, and the name is on the roll four years dead.

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