Illustration for Ending — The Tutor, from the adult visual novel The Sixth Seal

You take the first standing and name her as the second, out loud, in front of the governors.

It is legal. It is monstrous. She taught you the rule herself and she does not argue.

SableI did wonder whether you were paying attention.

The seal takes twenty years of her and a year of yours and the walls hold better than they have in a decade.

She leaves the institute in the spring, quietly, and does not write.

You have her office now. The decanter is still three-quarters full and you have not touched it.

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