Illustration for First Light, from the adult visual novel The Second Sitting

The frost comes at six and it comes onto the studio window and not onto any other window in the house, and the paint is dry.

CorvinaFinished before the first frost, in one sitting, from life, unadorned. It is a valid certification and there is nothing in it a lawyer could unpick.

MioneThere is plenty in it a lawyer could enjoy. There is nobody left to unpick it. We are the last four people in this building.

Malfoid is still on the stool, wrapped in the dust sheet, looking at a painting of herself that is entirely accurate and completely wrong.

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