Illustration for Friday, Four O'Clock, from the adult visual novel The Countersign

On Friday the reports go across the bridge in a sealed box with a staffed gate at each end, and Halvard carries it himself because he is the formality and the formality walks.

HalvardEleven reports. Four countersigned. Nobody in that Tower has seen this figure in eleven years and I do not know what they will do about it.

TamsinYou could lose one.

HalvardI could. I have been able to lose one for four years and nobody has ever given me a reason to, and I am not going to start now because it would be easy.

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