Illustration for Act One — Ending: Four Years, from the adult visual novel The Seventh Binding

She reads it twice standing up, then sits on the floor, which is the first time you have seen her sit for any reason but a fight.

WrenThen we spend them well. That's all this is. That's all anyone ever gets, just normally more of it.

She says you are to stop treating her like a tool she loaned you and start treating her like a person with four years to be happy in.

In the morning she is barefoot in your shirt on the street outside, with a bag over one shoulder.

WrenCome on. I want to waste a whole day.

You have never heard her suggest anything so stupid. You have never agreed to anything so fast.

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