Illustration for What It Wants, from the adult visual novel The Under-gardener

The maze opens toward what you want. That is the whole of how it works and it took Mione an afternoon with the diary to arrive at it.

MioneEvery account of being lost in it describes the same thing. The path always goes somewhere interesting. Nobody in a hundred years has ever been bored in this maze.

CorvinaA maze that leads you to what you want is a maze you will never leave. It is not a puzzle. It is a very good host.

PorterThen the way out is to want nothing.

CorvinaYes. And you will find that considerably harder than it sounds.

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