Illustration for By the Window, from the adult visual novel The Clerk's Window

She stays after that. It gets dark. The floodlights come on across the yard and the hum of them comes through the glass and neither of us says anything for a while.

TamsinYou could send the drawer. All four hundred of them, on Monday, with a note. It would be the most honest thing that has ever come out of this bank.

HalvardAnd eleven people would be gone by the weekend, and every one of them would be gone because a twenty-nine-year-old wanted to be honest in public.

TamsinThen it is a choice with a body count and you have been making it four hundred times and calling it a formality.

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