MBC #2: 'Bloodletting' (Ruby Version) [Part 1, 🌲🍂] (Patreon)

[Alternate Text: A header image of a broken hourglass. Its white sand is spilling out with only one half of its glass chambers still intact, while the other is shattered into several shards. It has gilded finishes. The background is black, though there is gold shimmer around the hourglass itself. The title 'Bloodletting' is the same color as the sand with a dark shadow stretching out from it.]

Ruby almost continues around the corner until you tug on your joined hands and come to a complete stop. She adapts, matching your sudden pause, but not your teasing smile as she glances down one of the Verner mansion's palatial hallways. It stretches on and on, flanked by expensive artwork, well-preserved armor, and other displays of rarity and wealth.

It's perfect—a main hall meant to leave guests impressed each time they walk through it.

"I thought you were famished?" Ruby asks. "I would have brought you breakfast in bed."

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