Illustration for Ending — The Precedent, from the adult visual novel Rank Two

He files the form itself as a report: the writing of it, the three nights, the yard, the countersigning. It is worth eight places, because paperwork is not in the schedule and the clerk has to invent a figure.

By November there are forty forms. Rab rewrites the template and hands out copies, and the box on a Friday becomes a queue.

HalvardYou have made my job into a thing that matters. I have been the formality four years and spent all of it wishing I was not.

Deacon is rank one for four weeks and rank three by Christmas and does not seem to mind, and is in the yard every Friday anyway.

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