Illustration for Who Stays, from the adult visual novel The Tithe

The deed does not say who else may be in the house. It says a body is given, and it says nothing at all about company, and Mione has decided that is not an accident.

MioneIn 1911 the harbour-master wrote the specification himself and he left that out on purpose. He was the one who had to go and collect the body.

MalfoidSo somebody stays and remembers and has to tell her in the morning what she was given.

MioneSomebody stays. And whoever stays is going to have to be in the room when the sea brings her what she wants, and that is a thing I would like to volunteer for.

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