MATURE. Adults only. Every named and speaking character is an adult with an age on the page: Corwen Lyle 39, Rhona Lyle 41, Marianne Vickery 58, Devin Agyeman 34, Bryn Mair 47, Esther Lyle 66, Callum Vickery 61, Nasreen Iqbal 29, Jarra Ashworth 35, Hannah Whitcombe-Bell 39. The youngest is 29. No minor appears in any role, memory, photograph, plan, announcement, joke, or future reference, and the house has no children in it, which the book says in the room. Themes: a man convicted of perverting the course of justice on a Tuesday in a courtroom with the blinds down. A woman of forty-one who testified against the man she has shared a house with for eight years, and who has been told since that she is a good citizen. A suspended sentence of fourteen months and the six weeks of small agreements that follow: who answers the telephone, what gets said at a school gate, whose name goes on the form, and what a mother is given. A key in a loft that neither of them will touch. A two-day coroner's inquest. A word about bread, written in biro on a beer mat in 2019. And one signature on one small piece of paper in a county court on a Tuesday with nothing happening on it. Sexual content: Corwen and Rhona are both adults. What each of them wants and what stops it is said out loud by both of them before anything begins, either may stop it at any moment with one word, and that word is used once and honoured. The scene is written in full and is specific to these two people and to this house. It is not a reward: it costs the book the last private version of the eight years, and the person it happens with is the person whose arithmetic is in the bundle. No civic choice is gated on it and no ending is unlocked by it. No method of any offence is described, no document of any offence is reproduced, no weapon is described, and nothing is depicted happening to anybody's body. Prejudice appears as what a town says about a woman who told the truth, and is shown only through what people do with it; no slur is written. All people, firms, courtrooms, and documents are fictional. All music is instrumental, there is no voice acting, and no media is generated or fetched at build time.