Illustration for Ending — The Plate, from the adult visual novel The Second Sitting

They finish the seventh panel themselves in the morning, with the brushes, which work for anyone not lying while they hold them.

The seventh panel is the four of them in a cold room at seven in the morning, and it is not obscene and it is not a certification.

CorvinaThat will not be admissible. Nobody in the Ministry will accept a portrait with four people and no plate.

MalfoidNo. But it will be true, and it will hang in this house, and I would rather be true than certified.

The estate is gone by spring and the four of them are still in the house, and the picture hangs on the studio wall with no plate under it.

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