Illustration for Ending — Three To One, from the adult visual novel Skin-Bound

You put all three names in the blank, which is not what the ruled line asks for and is what the man who wrote it would have understood.

MioneIt wanted a name for a name. It did not say the names had to be different.

The clause comes back legible and the blank closes over three names instead of one, and the school is held by a household of three rather than a line of one.

MalfoidSo we are all bound now. All three of us, on the same page, until one of us dies or the building does.

It is not a good outcome. It is the one where nobody is unwritten, and that is the only kind of good this house has ever produced.

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