Illustration for What the Tower Does Not See, from the adult visual novel The Clerk's Window

The withdrawal line is two hundred and the Tower does not know how many students are below it, because a report I do not send does not exist.

HalvardEleven of them are still enrolled because of this drawer. I have never told any of them. It is not a kindness I can be thanked for, because the moment they know it, it becomes a thing they will ask for.

I close the drawer and I do not lock it, because locking it would make it a secret and a secret is a thing somebody finds.

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