Illustration for Porter Answers, from the adult visual novel The Ninth Window

You answer first, which surprises everyone in the room including you.

PorterI would take the night being real. Not a spell, not a bowl, not a house doing it to us. I would give the whole rest of the year for it to have been us.

The wall writes it in the margin itself, under your hand, in a smaller one, and then it does not ask anything else for a while.

Malfoid pulls you down onto the bed by the open collar of your shirt and says nothing at all, which is her version of agreeing.

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