Illustration for Act Three — The Wish, from the adult visual novel The Seventh Binding

Seven markings on the stone floor. Six of them have been used. The seventh is yours to kneel in.

The wish does not work the way the ledger says. It does not give you what you want. It gives you the power to want something honestly.

You could take back four years. You could bring him back. You could ask for the blade alone. You could ask for none of it.

Behind you, three people wait in the dark of the chamber, and only one of them is a relic.

The stone gets warm. The blade is your father's weight in your hand and it has never fitted you.

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