Illustration for The Only Thing in the Building That Is Not Filed, from the adult visual novel The Clerk's Window

At one o'clock she stops asking me questions and gets down off the desk, and what happens next is the first thing that has happened to me in this building that will not appear anywhere on a form.

HalvardI am going to be bad at not being in charge of this.

TamsinYou are going to be fine at it. Nobody is marking you. That is the entire arrangement and it is the only one I have ever offered anybody.

The floodlights hum outside a half-down blind and the filing cabinet holds four years of other people's Fridays and none of them are this.

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