Illustration for The First Row, from the adult visual novel The Placement

The row is about the kettle and it is not about the kettle, and Mila starts it because she has been holding one in for four days.

MalfoidYou do not get to be angry at this building. You have been in it a week.

MilaI have been angry for two years, it is not a fixture of yours, it is mine.

Malfoid goes very quiet and does not shout, which is worse, and Mione puts both hands flat on the table like a referee.

CorvinaRight. Both of you. Out of my kitchen and into the hall until you can speak to each other like people.

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