Illustration for Two In The Morning, from the adult visual novel The Tithe

At two in the morning the water is above the window and the room is doing whatever Mila wants without being asked, and it has stopped being charming.

MalfoidIt is not giving her anything she has not wanted for years. That is what is horrible. It is a very accurate mirror and it has no mercy in it.

MioneIt is the only honest thing that has ever happened to her in this town. Eighty-seven years of this and nobody has ever written down what it is actually like.

The candle is a stub and the water is at the top of the window and the tide turns at ten past two, and none of them can hear it turn.

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