Illustration for The Maze Delivers, from the adult visual novel The Under-gardener

At ten they come out into a dead end with a bench grown half into the hedge, and there were no dead ends in the first hour, and Malfoid sits down on it.

MalfoidI am going to say something and I would like it received as information and not as an invitation. I have wanted to be in a room with the two of you since June.

MioneWe are in a room. It has no ceiling and it is nine feet of yew and it has been arranging itself around that sentence since we came in.

The bench is warm. It has been warm for some time. Nobody mentions it and all three of them have noticed.

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