Illustration for The Difficulty, from the adult visual novel The Fetch

The difficulty is not the sentence. The difficulty is that the fetch has been saying the sentence for seven months and it has been saying it beautifully.

CorvinaIt will tell you exactly what you want to hear and it will mean it, in as much as it means anything, and it will never ask you for anything back.

MioneWhich is the reason it has to go. A thing that asks for nothing is not a person. It is a wall that agrees with you.

You have been talking to a wall that agrees with you since March, and you have been feeling, on the whole, better.

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