Illustration for What Malfoid Is Given, from the adult visual novel The Tithe

The sea is not only giving to Mila. That is the thing nobody warned them about: there are three people in that house and the covenant only names one.

MalfoidIt is giving me something. I can feel it arranging. It has been arranging since eleven and I have been too polite to mention it.

MioneThen it is a breach. The deed says one body is given. It does not say the sea gets to hand out presents to the witnesses.

MalfoidIt is not a present. It is showing me what I would have had if my father had been a different man, and it is taking its time about it.

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