Illustration for The Hearing That Is Not One, from the adult visual novel The Clerk's Window

On Wednesday the Tower sends one page back across the bridge. It is not a hearing and it is not an inquiry. It is a single page with three questions on it and a box at the bottom for a reply.

HalvardQuestion one asks whether I have withheld reports. Question two asks how many. Question three asks me to name them.

TamsinAnd what are you going to write?

HalvardThat is the whole of it. Four years of deciding other people's Fridays and now there is a box and it is my turn to be a number.

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