Illustration for The Cart At Eight, from the adult visual novel The Second Sitting

The cart comes at eight for the canvas and the writ and the certification, and at ten to eight the three of them are standing in a studio making a decision.

The estate is a house and a name and a seat in a country that has stopped caring, and the room is a single night drawn honestly by a dead man's brushes.

MalfoidI want it lodged. Not because I owe this house anything. Because it is the only true thing about me that has ever been written down.

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