She Has Done the Arithmetic — The Clerk's Window

Illustration for She Has Done the Arithmetic, from the adult visual novel The Clerk's Window

TamsinEleven reports left the building and six numbers moved. That is a discrepancy and I have been sitting on it since Friday.

HalvardReports are not numbers. A report can be worth nothing.

TamsinA report signed by two people in a floodlit yard in front of four hundred witnesses is not worth nothing. You are the only person between that yard and that bridge.

She has her hands flat on the desk and she is not threatening me. She is a person telling me that she has worked out where the door in the building is, and that I am standing in it.