1. The Cottage The war ended in May. In June the Ministry put the platinum heiress under house arrest and there was nowher...
2. The Kitchen Mione is sitting on the kitchen table with a book face down beside her and her shoes off, which is how she ...
3. The Heiress The attic smells of dust and the trunk. She is sitting on the bed with her arms folded and her shoes off an...
4. The Vest She gets off the table and pulls the vest over her head without any ceremony at all, and then stops with he...
5. The Slip You do not say it. You cross the attic and she stands up and does not step back, and the sneer stays on unt...
6. The First Night Her room is two doors down and the bed has not been made in a week, and she does not care about that either.
7. The Thing You Have Wanted To Say You back her against the low wall and she hits it and swears, and then stops swearing.
8. The Letter The Ministry letter comes on a Tuesday, with a date circled in pencil and a list of what the heiress has to...
9. The Case The study is full of her family's law books and she knows all of them and none of them help.
10. The River Mione takes her shoes off at the gate and does not put them back on and the whole afternoon is grass and dr...
11. The Books She pushes the whole stack off the desk with one arm and the noise is enormous in a small room at night.
12. The Grass She pulls her vest over her head and drops it in the grass and grins at you like it is a dare.
13. The Floor of the Study She goes on her back on the law reports with her arms above her head like she has decided not to be in char...
14. The Water The grass is hot and full of insects and neither of you cares about either.
15. The Paper The morning paper has a photograph of the courtroom on the front and a name in the third paragraph.
16. Telling Mione She reads the paper twice and then sits down on the kitchen table very slowly, like the floor has moved.
17. Telling Malfoid She reads it standing up and puts it down folded and does not look at you.
18. The Table She pulls you between her knees and gets your shirt off and then her own, and it is not a reward and not a ...
19. A Person For One Night She gets on the bed and pulls you after her, and she is not the heiress and not a defendant and not sneerin...
20. The Night Before The trial is tomorrow at ten and nobody sleeps, and by one in the morning all three of you are in the kitch...
21. The Kitchen Mione gets onto the table first because Mione always moves first, and Malfoid watches her do it and then st...
22. The Wizengamot The courtroom is stone and grey and there are chains on the floor and she has to stand in front of them in ...
23. Ending — September You swear it. The heiress walks out of that room free and the newspapers crucify her the same afternoon.
24. Ending — The Gates You do not swear it. She is convicted on the fifth day and the sentence is two years, suspended, and she is...
25. Ending — The Whole Truth You swear the thing she needs and then you keep talking, and what comes out is two fathers and a room full ...
26. Ending — Nothing You are asked the question and you say nothing, because every answer you have costs somebody in that room t...