Illustration for The Last Panel, from the adult visual novel The Second Sitting

The last panel takes the longest because the last panel is the only one that is not about anybody's body.

It is a painting of the seven panels together, hung on a wall, with a brass plate underneath, and the plate has a name on it and the name is hers.

CorvinaThat is the certification. Seven panels, a plate, a name. That is what gets lodged. That is what he was commissioned to make.

MalfoidThen he did not paint me wanting things. He painted me being a line in a book. That is a different sort of obscene.

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