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

The maze is a boundary feature and it is named in the 1894 deed alongside the walls, the well and the ha-ha, and it is described as maintained.

Mione finds the covenant in a box of estate papers in October and it takes her an hour to understand that the maze is not decoration.

MioneIf the line fails, the title passes to whoever is still inside the boundary at daybreak. The boundary is the maze. The maze is the boundary.

MalfoidThen it is a very stupid clause written by a very stupid great-grandfather and it does not mean anything in 1998.

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