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The Second Sitting
A story from The Malfoid Universe
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26 scenes · 3 endings
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Scenes 26
Endings 3
Universe The Malfoid Universe
Mione
Malfoid
Porter
Corvina
Restitution requires a certified portrait of the heir as she is, unadorned, for the identification of the line, and it must be lodged before the first frost. The room at the top of the house still holds a limner's brushes and a primed canvas, and the canvas does not paint what it is shown. It paints what the sitter wants, and it has already started.
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 Writ
The restitution of a seized estate requires a certification of the line, and the certification requires a p...
2
The Small Print
Mione takes the writ up to the only desk with a lamp that works and reads the second paragraph four times, ...
3
The Gallery
There were forty portraits in this gallery in 1998 and there are eleven now, and the eleven are all facing ...
4
The Studio
The studio is at the top of the house, north-facing, and has not been used since 2001, and the paint on the...
5
What A Limner Does
The limner was a Gravenhollow man, employed for two hundred years, and his warrant is in the school archive...
6
The Conditions
Mione reads the four conditions again and this time she reads the small print under the second one, which i...
7
Unadorned
The writ is specific. No clothing, no jewellery, no cosmetics, no adornment of any kind, because the purpos...
8
Before The First Frost
The first frost is due on Thursday. It is Monday. There are three nights in which this can happen and the r...
9
Who Stands In The Room
You carry the canvas up. Mione carries the writ. Corvina carries the lamp and a chair for herself and does ...
10
The First Sitting
She gets on the stool herself. No one asks her to and no one helps, and the stool is cold and she sits on i...
11
That Is Not Me
By half past eleven there is a figure on the canvas and it is her and it is not on a stool and it is not al...
12
The Only Way Out
Mione finds it in the warrant at midnight, in the third paragraph, and she reads it four times before she s...
13
The Grid
They turn the easel toward the lamp and it is not one picture. It is seven small panels in a grid, and the ...
14
The Order Of It
There is an order to the painting and it is not an obvious one, and Mione writes it down backwards from the...
15
Panel Two
The canvas is not a single picture. It is a series of small panels in a grid, like a document with nine cla...
16
Two In The Morning
Two o'clock is the point where a plan stops being a plan and becomes a night, and Corvina has read the warr...
17
The Fourth Panel
They stop talking about the painting around three and start working through it, which is a different activi...
18
Panel Six
By four the painting is finished except for one panel, and the one panel is the reason the room let them do...
19
The Last Panel
The last panel takes the longest because the last panel is the only one that is not about anybody's body.
20
First Light
The frost comes at six and it comes onto the studio window and not onto any other window in the house, and ...
21
What It Cost
The estate comes back if the canvas is lodged, and the canvas goes into a Ministry archive as a document, a...
22
The Choice At The Door
The door opens at seven and the corridor beyond it is cold and ordinary, and the canvas is on the easel wit...
23
The Cart At Eight
The cart comes at eight for the canvas and the writ and the certification, and at ten to eight the three of...
24
Ending — The Certification
It goes out wrapped in brown paper on a cart at eight and is lodged in a Ministry archive in November, and ...
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25
Ending — The Fire
Mione burns it in the study grate at eight o'clock while the cart waits in the yard, and it takes eleven mi...
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26
Ending — The Plate
They finish the seventh panel themselves in the morning, with the brushes, which work for anyone not lying ...
ending
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