Illustration for What It Gives Her, from the adult visual novel The Tithe

What the sea gives her first is the thing she has wanted since she was fourteen and has never said out loud, and it gives it to her exactly.

It is not a copy and it is not a spell and there is no trick in it: Malfoid is in the room because Malfoid came, and the sea has simply arranged for her to be willing.

MalfoidThis is not what I came here for. I came to be a witness and I am going to be extremely clear that I am not being made to do anything.

MilaYou are not. I am being given something and you are choosing to be in the room, and those are two different things and I need them to stay different.

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