Illustration for Hand Five, from the adult visual novel The Wager

Mione loses the fifth hand and does not wait for the forfeit, which is the first genuinely surprising thing that happens all night.

She gets up on the bed and pulls her dress down to her waist and pushes her bra up over the top of her breasts without a word.

MioneThere. Is that the right amount? Nobody ever tells me what the right amount is.

MalfoidIt is not a performance. She is asking. Do you see what she is doing?

You see exactly what she is doing, and you have seen her do it at a kitchen table in September, and this time she is doing it on purpose.

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