Illustration for Ending — Three Questions, from the adult visual novel The Clerk's Window

I answer all three. Four hundred and twelve withheld reports, listed by date, with the name on every one of them, and a fourth paragraph that nobody asked for explaining why I did it.

The Tower withdraws my post in March. Eleven students are reassessed on the withheld reports and six of them are gone by the summer, and I have their names in a folder that I keep, and I do not keep it because I am sorry.

TamsinYou could have lied on one question and saved six of them.

HalvardYes. And then there would be a drawer again in five years with somebody else's name on it, and I would rather be the last man who had one.

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