Illustration for That Is Not Me, from the adult visual novel The Second Sitting

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 alone.

MalfoidStop it. That is not what I am doing. I am sitting on a stool in a cold room with my hands in my lap.

CorvinaThe warrant says it paints what is there. It does not say it paints what you are doing. It paints what you are.

MioneIt is a preview, Malfoid. That is what the limner's portraits did. Forty of them in that gallery facing the wall because every one of them was doing something.

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