Illustration for Tonight, from the adult visual novel The Fetch

It is in the doorway of your room at a quarter past one, and the corridor lamp behind it is lighting a shape that is not casting a shadow.

It is Malfoid, exactly, down to the pin, and it is smiling in a way Malfoid has never smiled in her life, and it says your name.

CorvinaDo not answer it. Whatever it says, do not answer it. An answered fetch takes a room and a room is very hard to get back.

You do not answer it. It waits in the doorway until four, patiently, and then it is not there, and you have not slept.

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