Illustration for Ending — Escheat, from the adult visual novel The Sealing Wax

She burns it in the study grate on Wednesday night and it takes eleven minutes, and the three seals melt into one lump of red that cools into a shape nobody can read.

The estate goes to the Crown in the spring. The deed boxes go with it. Corvina stays on as a caretaker for a building that now belongs to a department.

MalfoidI would rather be nothing at all than be a signature written by a man in an office who has never been cold in his life.

CorvinaYou are the first person in four hundred years to leave this house with less than they arrived with. It will keep suiting you in February.

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