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The Sealing Wax

A story from The Malfoid Universe · 19 scenes · 3 endings

Scenes 19

Endings 3

Universe The Malfoid Universe

Malfoid Mione Porter Corvina

The deed comes back from the Ministry with one clause still alive and a date in the margin. It needs three seals. A seal is wax, and wax on a deed must be warmed by body heat, because a flame cracks it and a cracked seal is void. The schedule that says so was written in 1604 and calls the place the keeping of the seal, and it does not use a plainer word because the man who wrote it did not have one. The document gets them into the room. The countdown means they cannot leave. The sex is what happens because they are both there and neither of them is any good at talking.

Chapters

1 The Clause The deed comes back from the Ministry in October with one clause still alive and a date written in the marg...

2 The Keeping Of The Seal There is a block of red sealing wax in the study drawer, hard as a brick, with a serpent stamped into one f...

3 The Ledger Mione has to witness. Three seals, three entries, and every entry must say what was done and not what was m...

4 The Ministry Witness Porter is the Ministry's witness. His signature voids the deed or validates it and he has not yet decided w...

5 The First Seal The serpent pin comes off first. It always does. She puts it on the desk face down and does not look at it ...

6 Nine Minutes The first seal presses clean. The wax takes the serpent and the serpent takes the wax and Corvina sets it o...

7 The Second Place The second seal is the one that matters, because the deed has two name plates and only one of them is filled.

8 Warmer Than The First The second seal has to be warmer than the first. The schedule is specific about the difference and entirely...

9 In Place Porter holds it in place with both hands in her hair, which is not where the wax is, and Malfoid does not c...

10 The Serpent The wax is soft and the seal is clean and there is a red mark on her chest the shape of a serpent and it wi...

11 The Third Place The third seal is Mione's, because the deed needs a second name and Malfoid has decided on her and has not ...

12 Twenty Minutes Mione warms the third seal herself and does it badly, and it takes twenty minutes, and nobody in the room i...

13 Afterwards Afterwards Malfoid puts her hand flat on Mione's chest where the wax was and leaves it there long enough to...

14 Four Hundred Deeds Corvina has witnessed four hundred deeds in this house and has never once been asked what she thought of one.

15 Three Seals Three seals, three names, and the deed goes up to London on Thursday in a brown paper wrapper tied with str...

16 The Second Plate The estate is a house, a name, and a cold seat in a country that has mostly stopped caring. The plate takes...

17 Ending — The Second Name The deed is lodged on Thursday and the estate comes back in January, and the house is cold and enormous and... ending

18 Ending — The Witness Porter signs the second plate and certifies his own seal, which is legal, and which the Ministry accepts, a... ending

19 Ending — Escheat She burns it in the study grate on Wednesday night and it takes eleven minutes, and the three seals melt in... ending

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