Illustration for Before The Parish, from the adult visual novel The Weighing

The assize says before the parish. The parish is a village of two hundred people who have disliked this house for four hundred years.

The screen goes up across the hall on the twenty-ninth, eight panels, with gaps between them because the screen is old and warped and nobody is going to fix it.

CorvinaThey are not permitted to watch. They are permitted to be present. Those are different words and the difference is the whole of my afternoon.

MalfoidThere will be forty people behind that screen and eight gaps. Do not insult me by pretending otherwise.

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