Illustration for Said And Done, from the adult visual novel The Fetch

It turns out that the sentence has to be said while it is being meant, and meaning it takes a while, and the fetch has to watch all of it.

Mione does not need asking and does not narrate, and the candle on the table gives up somewhere around the middle and nobody gets up to relight it.

MalfoidLook at it. It is going. It is going because you are doing the thing instead of describing the thing, and it has never had an answer to that.

The fetch is a smear in the doorway by half past two, and it is most of the way gone, and the contract is not satisfied yet.

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