Illustration for The Marks, from the adult visual novel The Weighing

The flagstones in front of the scale are covered in tally marks, scored in with something harder than chalk in places.

Some are four strokes and a cross. Some are just a single deep gouge, and those are all on the left side of the hall, where the debtor would stand.

MalfoidHow many?

MioneTwo hundred and six. I counted them while you were arguing with Corvina. Two hundred and six people have stood there and paid.

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