Illustration for What Malfoid Says On The Quay, from the adult visual novel The Tithe

Malfoid walks the length of the quay twice and then stands at the end of it with the wind taking her hair out of its pin and says what she has been not saying.

MalfoidI have spent my life in a house that took things from people and called it an arrangement. I do not want to be in another one and I am apparently in another one.

MioneThe difference is that you can refuse clause nine and the deed will survive being refused. My father's contract would not have.

The gulls go up off the wall all at once for no reason and settle again, and neither of them says anything for a while.

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