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

The first grey comes at ten past six and it comes from the wrong side, which is how they know they are facing out.

Eleven steps later the hedge on the left thins and there is a gap the width of a person and Corvina is standing in it with a lantern and a face like a wet weekend.

CorvinaSix hours. I have been standing at this gate since seven and the gate has been exactly here the entire time.

MioneThe gate was never the maze. The gate was us. We were the bit of it that kept moving.

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