Illustration for Ending — Another Year, from the adult visual novel The Tithe

The tithe stands. The money comes out of Whitby in December and Mila buys a flat with two rooms and a door that locks, and cannot say why that was the shape she wanted.

She is in the drum every October and she comes out of that house every November with no memory and a taste in her mouth and the town is very nice to her.

MioneYou wanted a door that locks and nobody angry in the next room. You told me on the last night of October and you have never said it since.

MilaI know. I have the door. I am not going to ask how you knew, because every time I ask I get a worse answer.

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