Blood bond garden (Patreon)

Main panel of the next double-page spread. You may have already noticed the crude alchemical references. The last stage had to be red in reference to the “Rubedo” (the previous ones were nigredo and albedo). Phan is now the red king and meets his white queen. As extra trivia, this is the 4th earring Phan will receive, but upon receiving the fifth, that giant flower is used as a marital bed where the act must be consummated, symbolically achieving the divine union between Kuraths (the red spirit of strength in my story) and Zeth (the white spirit of wisdom, also in my story).