#Chris Heathfield's maids

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Chris Heathfield's maids

[abybweisse]

Since we were on sharing theories, I was about to tell mine but as I was typing it, I started arguing with myself and finding counter-arguments and now this theory seems totally unlikely. Hope everyone is doing good! Let's look forward the 200th chapter! Hope it brings good news! (my theory was that the kids in the orphanage would be used for more than just blood collecting; UT said the BDs needs "episodes" to keep going, so they would raise the kids to be as close "mentally" to those who would "inherit" those episodes, except that's an awful lot of kids just to make fake memories of the future for those 4 stars people)

Collecting episodes?

I got an ask similar to that about a month ago, or maybe it was just brought up during a discussion. Either way, I argued that episodes are about personal goals in life, and even if these kids have the same blood types and are being "shaped" to have similar souls, their personal aspirations are going to be wholly different from the lords they are paired with.

Besides, as I also mentioned before, Undertaker says that real Ciel was "chock full" of episodes of his own. And don't forget that Undertaker sets these episodes on a loop. That's why the bd's on the ship just had their minds filled with Undertaker cosplaying Charlie Chaplin. And why someone like Arden (and his friends) who didn't seem to have much in the way of life goals, just repeats stuff about tea (or cricket, etc.). Those simple thoughts weren't strong enough to keep them in line, so to speak.

Like real Ciel, the other lords of the stars seem to have a fair amount of episodes. Polaris wants to serve his master, Layla/Al seems to focus on hedonism (to an extent, anyway) and living in the moment... though she/they might have some private goals we don't know about, and Doll wants revenge against our earl and Sebastian for her own death and the destruction of her friends. Why would they need more "episodes"?

I do agree, however, that Undertaker is interested in harvesting more than just blood. Most of them are being used just for their blood, yes. But the top students are probably being primed for using not just their blood but also their souls. It's back to the whole "soul shape" thing that Jane mentioned in Yorkshire, at Heathfield's manor.

Undertaker previously told our earl and Sebastian that bd's cannot use the souls of the people they attack, and he says he cannot make a soul... but he never says he can't manipulate souls that already exist. The bd's can't... but he probably can.

But I hope all the rest of the students can make it out alive....

[grelleswife]

These observations are somewhat premature since the translation has yet to be released, but I’m currently going insane over this panel from the raws:

The orphans’ outfits bear a striking resemblance to a certain undead Phantomhive heir’s attire, don’t they?

And, of course, the Fenian Cycle held great personal significance for both of the twins during their formative years:

As my good fren and mutual @bapydemonprincess noted here last month, the orphanage’s layout as displayed thus far is eerily similar to the Phantomhive family manor…and now we have a gaggle of boys potentially being trained up as new Ciel copycats? The game is afoot!

I wonder if Undertaker is using this establishment as a means of molding the children’s spirits in R!Ciel’s image, thus developing a replacement soul for the little bizarre doll. (Perhaps a similar principal guided Baron Chris Heathfield’s trysts with his maids to assess the shape of their souls…was he looking for a suitable psyche to reanimate his deceased wife?)

It’s also quite apt that the Fenian Cycle receives a cameo during this Finnian-centric arc, considering that O!Ciel named the gardener after one of the heroes found within its pages.

Not sure if this callback will have additional plot relevance down the line, but it’s an interesting detail! Our sweet Finny will probably need to be stronger than a whole herd of deer if he hopes to survive this mission unscathed. 😭

[plague-of-insomnia]

Finally got to read ch 154 and I don’t get all the controversy... just reminded me of Monty Python. 😂

I wanted to include the SS from the manga but apparently tumblr is as prudish as the people who are complaining about ch 154

Let’s see if they’ll accept my fun-with-censoring version.

[shinigami-mistress]

Chapter 154: Summary and First Impressions

I’ve just read 154 for the first time, and I have a few thoughts.

Mey-Rin and Ran Mao find all the maids hurriedly putting on makeup, which Mey-Rin finds odd, but she’s told that Baron Heathfield has returned. In this household, the servants greet the family and new hires stand in front. This is unlike anything that Mey-Rin is used to or has come to expect.

Thus we soon me Chris Heathfield, and find that he’s a handsome man. He’s especially interested in the four new maids. Along with Mey-Rin and Ran Mao, there are two other women - Matilda and Annie. He seems quite friendly (maybe too much so) and also wants to get a good look at all his maids.

Afterwards it’s explained that he likes for maid to join him in the bedroom each night. This seems to be an exciting prospect among the women, as one proclaims she wants to be the Baroness. It’s also mentioned that a previous maid had been his favorite, but she just disappeared. One maid suggests that he got tired of her and she simply left.

As the other maids hurry off to attend chores, the new hires are told to inspect their collars and cuffs to make sure they look presentable. When Annie checks her cuffs, she finds an invitation to the master’s bedroom that night at 10 pm. She hides this from the others, but Mey-Rin is able to read the invitation because of her farsightedness. 

That night, Mey-Rin tells Ran Mao to stay in bed and to tell everyone that she (Mey-Rin) is already in bed. Ran Mao agrees to this, and Mey-Rin goes to investigate. She goes to Heathfield’s bedroom to find that he and Annie are already...occupied. While she looks on, someone grabs her from behind and the chapter ends.

So, what are my thoughts?

The setup of the household was interesting. All of the maids we saw seemed excited by the prospect Baron Heathfield might call them to his room. None seemed upset or said that he was abusing his power/position - which he is of course. Rather the idea that this handsome, rich noble might choose one of them to be his favorite appeared to be tantalizing to them. It’s interesting because we know the type of maids this household employs. Most of these women probably don’t have any sort of connections. This sort of job is the best they can get in life...unless they marry into money. It’s like dangling this carrot in front of them; this prospect of a better life that would be like fairy tale.

It also can set up some conflict and even competition among the maids since more than one wants to be his favorite. The casual way one mentioned her roommate simply disappeared after going to his bedroom a lot might be attributed to this. Instead of being worried for her, they just assumed she couldn’t satisfy him anymore and left in shame.

Personally, I would have liked to have seen one maid who didn’t like this arrangement as much as the others. I want to know what would happen if one of the maids denied the invitation. Would she just be fired or would more happen? Are all of them just so willing to sleep with the Baron or are there other factors involved?

Next, while I see signs of connections to the other cults, I’m not sure how this relates to the taking of blood or anything like that. We see a mask, and most of the cults in the series have used some sort of mask, and there’s the idea that sex is involved. This reminds of that cult that sacrificed real!Ciel. Perhaps it’s another sign that all the cults are connected.

Could the other lords need something more than simply blood to remain as themselves? Maybe sex ties into that somehow.

The big question is who grabbed Mey-Rin and is she in danger? If it was someone like Jane, Mey-Rin could say she was simply curious since she knew about Annie’s invitation. That excuse would work. If it’s someone else, Mey-Rin might be in trouble.

And that’s my initial thoughts.

[abybweisse]

It occurs to me that, if Layla/Al turns out to be Heathfield's daughter, this could be a reason for Jane to return to the story. But that reason would only work out if Jane is still working or willing to work for Heathfield, in some capacity... or if she's actually working more directly with Undertaker.... 🤔

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

Here are today's character polls! Characters are listed in order of perceived importance and alphabetically.

Joker

Arthur Conan Doyle

Cloudia Phantomhive

"Deer"

Grelle's chainsaw

Hilde Dickhaut

Jan

Richard

Rin

Trancy / Former Head Trancy

Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred face

the archeologist

the bear

the cats that Sebastian rescues from the rain

These character polls are ending tomorrow! Go and get your last votes in before they close!

John Brown

Ludger

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Artie

Peter

Damian

Miranda

Nina's assistants

Chef Wollest

Chris Heathfield's maids

Saneatsu Nekoma

Susan

demon crow

Prince Albert puppet

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

The following is the lineup for the polls by date, made using a random number generator. New characters introduced in chapter 199 will automatically be added to the end of the roster.

April 19th - April 26th

Chlaus

Rian Stoker

Lord Ackroyd's son

FOL Orphanage staff

Timber

Claude Faustus

Tanaka

Conny

Emily

Baldroy / Bard / Baldo

Finnian / Finny

Sharpe Hanks

Mabel

Burnett

April 20th - April 27th

Soma's elephant

Beast

Sophie Smith

Theodore

Finny's hat

Funtom Corporation's unicorn suit

Karl Woodley

Oscar

Chris Heathfield

Sieglinde Sullivan

Fred Abberline

Stella Rose

Charles Phipps

the orphan that called Sebastian an old guy

April 21st - April 28th

Nick

Joanne Harcourt

Purple House dorm master

Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer

Yana Toboso

Grete Hilbard

the Mad Dog of Venice

Abbie

Johnny

Mina

Rachel Phantomhive

Charles Phipps's chicken

Haku

Sascha

April 22nd - April 29th

Jumbo

Mrs. Mayell

Goethe

the Rowdy Count

Georg von Siemens

Margaret Connor

Al

Cedric Brandel

Mathilda Simmons

Wendy

Sam / Old Man Sam

Grelle Sutcliff

Ellery Nixon

Eric Slingby

April 23rd - April 30th

Edward Midford

Luka Macken

Queen Victoria

Lord Ackroyd

Layla

the other children in the lab Finny was kept in

Betty

Reaper trainees

Green House dorm master

Vincent Phantomhive

Drossel Keinz

Kelvin

Lawrence Bluewer's sisters

Charles Grey

April 24th - May 1st

Margaret Turner

Akashi

Snake

Edgar Redmond

Derrick Arden

Ronald Knox

Aurora Society member

Bloodbath Johnny

Wilde

Soma Asman Kadar

Claude's birds

Sebastian's silverware

Chef Rickman

Susannah Connor

April 25th - May 2nd

Susan

Artie

Damian

John Brown

Saneatsu Nekoma

Peter

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Chef Wollest

Chris Heathfield's maids

demon Crow

Nina's assistants

Ludger

Prince Albert puppet

Miranda

April 26th - May 3rd

Blavat Sky

Vicar Rathbone

Julius Pitt

walking stick shopkeeper

Grimsby Keane

Ciel's horse

Edward V

Jay the Undertaker

Gregory Violet

Canterbury

Jeremy Rathbone

Doctor

the cat from the live action movie

Henry Barrymore

April 27th - May 4th

Lawrence Bluewer

Prince Albert

Higham

the Panzer

the train kidnapper

Donne

Heinrich

Chef Lach

Dagger

Doll / Freckles

Sam's grandson

Bitter Rabbit

Japanese man with a katana

"Ciel" Phantomhive / Our Ciel / O!Ciel

April 28th - May 5th

Mey-Rin

Undertaker's mourning lockets

Webster

Purple House prefect from Vincent's year

Patrick the Grey Wizard

Diedrich

Johann Agares

Bronte

Carter

Othello

the cultists

Baldroy Jr.

John Brown's horse

Sphere Music Hall staff

April 29th - May 6th

Jackknife Haywood

Nina Hopkins

William's death scythe

Angela Blanc

Wolfram Gelzer

McDowell

Ronald's lawnmower

Arthur Randall

Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt

Keats

Annie

Terry

Hao

Maria

April 30th - May 7th

Irene Diaz

Polaris

beggar boy that Soma gives a necklace to, mother, and baby brother

kenpo master

Red House dorm master

Ran-Mao

Shiori Genpou

Cedric K. Ros

Lau

Clayton

William T. Spears

Patrick Phelps

Japanese woman with a lunchbox

Oliver

May 1st - May 8th

Arthur Conan Doyle

the bear

Grelle's chainsaw

Trancy / Former Head Trancy

Richard

Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred face

the archeologist

Joker

Jan

the cats Sebastian rescues from the rain

Hilde Dickhaut

Rin

Cloudia Phantomhive

"Deer"

May 2nd - May 9th

King's Bear prostitutes

McMillan

"Her"

Undertaker's death scythe

Daniel

Ginny

Sieglinde Sullivan's father

Charles Bennett Sato

demon Ciel

Ada

Arnold Trancy

Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel

Arihito Genpou

Thomas Wallis

May 3rd - May 10th

Chef Tarpin

Queen Victoria (Season 1)

Lau's ladies

Fennian

Harold West Jeb

Nicholas

Professor Sullivan / village crone

Anne Drewanz

CGI horses / driver

Margaret Connor's father

Ciel Phantomhive child / R!Ciel child

Jane

Paula

Wordsworth

May 4th - May 11th

Maurice Cole

Alexis Leon Midford

bizarre dolls

the turnspit dog

the "werewolves"

O!Ciel's land renters

priest

Pluto

Sebastian the dog

Red House prefect from Vincent's year

the Sebastian Roomba

bizarre doll horses

Baldroy's cow

Undertaker

May 5th - May 12th

Hanae Wakatsuki

the iceberg

Alan Humphries

Ash Landers

Thompson

Snake's unnamed snakes

Milly

Munemitsu Aoki

Alois Trancy / Jim Macken

Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy

Aurora Society purified water seller

Drossel's dolls

the timetable guy

Herman Greenhill

May 6th - May 13th

Azzurro Vanel

William's pigeons

Joanna

Reaper managers

Dove

Countess Trancy and her baby

German countryman

Scotland Yard officers

Haku's henchman

Lorraine McDowell

demon "pet" (the xenomorph)

Hannah Annafellows

Angelina Dalles / Madam Red / Aunt An

Pitt

May 7th - May 14th

Vincent Phantomhive's staff

Paul Jones

Francis Midford

Sebastian Michaelis

Cheslock

Phantomhive family ring

James

Edward Abberline

Baron Ridley

Sebastian's owl

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After the cut is the final list of characters that will be in the poll, aside from any new characters that are introduced in chapter 199.

Abbie

Ada

Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer

Akashi

Al

Alan Humphries

Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt

Alexis Leon Midford

Alois Trancy / Jim Macken

Angela Blanc

Angelina Dalles / Madam Red / Aunt An

Anne Drewanz

Annie

the archeologist (Season 2 character)

Arihito Genpou

Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred face

Arnold Trancy

Artie

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Randall

Ash Landers

Aurora Society member (first one O!Ciel and Seb meet)

Aurora Society purified water seller

Azzurro Vanel

Baldroy / Bard / Baldo

Baldroy Jr.

Baldroy's cow

the bear

Beast

beggar boy that Soma gives a necklace to, mother, and baby brother

Betty

Bitter Rabbit

bizarre dolls

bizarre doll horses

Blavat Sky

Bloodbath Johnny

Bronte

Burnett

Canterbury

Carter

the cat from the live action movie

the cats Sebastian rescues from the rain

Cedric Brandel

Cedric K. Ros

CGI horses / driver

Charles Bennett Sato

Charles Grey

Charles Phipps

Charles Phipps's chicken

Chef Lach

Chef Rickman

Chef Tarpin

Chef Wollest

Cheslock

Chlaus

Chris Heathfield

Chris Heathfield's Chris Heathfield's maids

Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel

Ciel Phantomhive child / R!Ciel child

"Ciel" Phantomhive / Our Ciel / O!Ciel

Ciel's horse

Claude Faustus

Claude's birds

Cloudia Phantomhive

Clayton

Conny

Countess Trancy and her baby

the cultists

Dagger

Damian

Daniel

"Deer"

demon Ciel

demon Crow

demon "pet" (the xenomorph)

Derrick Arden

Diedrich

Doctor

Doll / Freckles

Donne

Dove

Drossel Keinz

Drossel's dolls

Edgar Redmond

Edward Abberline

Edward Midford

Edward V

Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy

Ellery Nixon

Emily

Eric Slingby

Fennian

Finnian / Finny

Finny's hat

FOL Orphanage staff

Francis Midford

Fred Abberline

Funtom Corporation's unicorn suit

Georg von Siemens

German countryman

Ginny

Goethe

Green House dorm master

Gregory Violet

Grelle Sutcliff

Grelle's chainsaw

Grete Hilbard

Grimsby Keane

Haku

Haku's henchman

Hanae Wakatsuki

Hannah Annafellows

Hao

Harold West Jeb

Heinrich

Henry Barrymore

"Her"

Herman Greenhill

Higham

Hilde Dickhaut

the iceberg

Irene Diaz

Jackknife Haywood

James

Jan

Jane

Japanese man with a katana

Japanese woman with a lunchbox

Jay the Undertaker

Jeremy Rathbone

Joanna

Joanne Harcourt

Johann Agares

John Brown

John Brown's horse

Johnny

Joker

Julius Pitt

Jumbo

Karl Woodley

Keats

Kelvin

kenpo master

King's Bear prostitutes

Lau

Lau's girls

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Lawrence Bluewer

Lawrence Bluewer's sisters

Layla

Lord Ackroyd

Lord Ackroyd's son

Lorraine McDowell

Ludger

Luka Macken

the Mad Dog of Venice

Mabel

Margaret Connor

Margaret Connor's father

Margaret Turner

Maria

Mathilda Simmons

Maurice Cole

McDowell

McMillan

Mey-Rin

Milly

Mina

Miranda

Mrs. Mayell

Munemitsu Aoki

Nicholas

Nick

Nina Hopkins

Nina's assistants

O!Ciel's land renters

Oliver

the orphan that called Sebastian an old guy

Oscar

Othello

the other children in the lab Finny was kept in

Paul Jones

the Panzer

Patrick Phelps

Patrick the Grey Wizard

Paula

Peter

Phantomhive family ring

Pitt

Pluto

Polaris

priest (from Season 2)

Prince Albert

Prince Albert puppet

Professor Sullivan / village crone

Purple House dorm master

Purple House prefect from Vincent's year

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria (Season 1)

Rachel Phantomhive

Ran-Mao

Reaper managers

Reaper trainees

Red House dorm master

Red House prefect from Vincent's year

Richard

Ridley

Rian Stoker

Rin

Ronald Knox

Ronald's lawnmower

the Rowdy Count

Sam / Old Man Sam

Sam's grandson

Saneatsu Nekoma

Sascha

Scotland Yard officers

Sebastian Michaelis

the Sebastian Roomba

Sebastian the dog

Sebastian's silverware

Sharpe Hanks

Shiori Genpou

Sieglinde Sullivan

Sieglinde Sullivan's father

Snake

Snake's unnamed snakes

Soma Asman Kadar

Soma's elephant

Sophie Smith

Sphere Music Hall staff

Stella Rose

Susan

Susannah Connor

Tanaka

Terry

Theodore

Thomas Wallis

Thompson

Timber

the timetable guy

the train kidnapper

Trancy / Former Head Trancy

the turnspit dog

Undertaker

Undertaker's death scythe

Undertaker's mourning lockets

Vicar Rathbone

Vincent Phantomhive

Vincent Phantomhive's staff

walking stick shopkeeper

Webster

Wendy

the "werewolves"

Wilde

William T. Spears

William's death scythe

William's pigeons

Wolfram Gelzer

Wordsworth

Yana Toboso

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

Here are today's character polls! Characters are listed in order of perceived importance and alphabetically.

John Brown

Ludger

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Artie

Peter

Damian

Miranda

Nina's assistants

Chef Wollest

Chris Heathfield's maids

Saneatsu Nekoma

Susan

demon crow

Prince Albert puppet

These character polls are ending tomorrow! Go and get your last votes in before they close!

Baldroy / Bard / Baldo

Finnian / Finny

Tanaka

Chlaus

Claude Faustus

Emily

Mabel

Rian Stoker

Sharpe Hanks

Timber

Burnett

Conny

FOL Orphange staff

Lord Ackroyd's son

[abybweisse]

I think Jane is a reanimated corpse just like Layla 👀

Jane a bizarre doll?

I highly doubt it. They are quite literally programmed to follow whatever goals their cinematic records have been altered to follow. If their "episode" breaks or "runs wild", like it did for Agares, then they turn into the mindless "animal weapons" we saw on the Campania. Jane didn't lose her mind and start trying to bite them. And she didn't even stick to the task she was hired for. She gave up and walked away. So, no. Not a bizarre doll.

But this doesn't rule out the possibility she's... something... not quite human. At first, I thought she might be a demon, because she talks about her employment contract in similar ways as Sebastian talks about his. But, the more I think of it, the more I think she's a highly skilled human who's heart just wasn't in it enough. The pay wasn't good enough to deal with Mey-Rin and Ran-Mao levels of trouble. Besides, Heathfield had been exposed, and her job was likely to end, anyway.

I did take note of Jane saying something like "see you around", though. We just might see her again.... 🤔

[abybweisse]

Ch167, Ran-Mao’s strengths

It’s hard to post about this chapter and show images without posting the whole thing (it’s so short), but here ya go. Some panels.

Definitely a deadly weapon, not just formidable.

He acts like he doesn’t know what happens to these women. Then he’s about to “confess”, but...

...Ran-Mao is poised to punch him again, and maybe she’s about to get some information out of him. However, I don’t think he knows the truth, just lies he’s been told... or at least he doesn’t know the whole truth.

Because after Jane knocks Ran-Mao out with the blow dart, she simply tells Heathfield “we’ll dispose of this woman.”

It could be that he knows what she means by “dispose of”, but it’s also possible he doesn’t. He might know about looking for “shapes of souls” and not know about the blood collections. It’s also interesting how in-charge a maid is being to the supposed “master of the house.”

Like Stoker, Heathfield might be in the dark about much of what’s really going on. But, unlike Stoker, he knows he’s deep into some shady activities. I do not feel sorry for Heathfield the way I felt sorry for Stoker, despite Heathfield losing his wife and child.

Oh, but who all was it who mentioned that Ran-Mao’s presence around all that opium might help her overcome any drugs she’s given at the manor? Well, time for you to celebrate.

[abybweisse]

Ch169, Initial/pre-translation thoughts, part 1

I really need translations to verify, but it looks like Jane helps Mey-Rin and Ran-Mao... and then she’s over it all.

Jane confronts Abbie, the House Keeper, and it looks like Mey-Rin confronts the head butler. I don’t recall his name. The women who had been kept drugged wake up the other maids in the manor, and they all confront Chris Heathfield... and beat him up even more!

I do not know whether Jane and Mey-Rin got much information out of Abbie and the head butler, but hopefully they learned something useful. Then Jane walks away as she removes her apron.

Then we get a cut to Phantomhive Manor, and I will talk about that in part two....

[abybweisse]

Ch166, What is Ran-Mao? Really.

Completely out of context, I initially mistook this...

...for Sebastian going into demon form, with black tendrils flying out from his hair. I thought he had somehow kept an eye (or three) on the events taking place at Heathfield Manor, and that he waited until the last possible moment to jump in and save Mey-Rin and Ran-Mao.

But no. In context, it’s clearly Ran-Mao, who must not have truly been knocked out... or at least not for very long. I suspect she completely faked being subdued and knocked out, particularly since she apparently gave Chris Heathfield the beating she told Mey-Rin she would (if she found incriminating evidence) back in ch155. 🤛

And, damn. She’s fast. I mean, we knew that, but so fast that she moved and got into attacking position before Jane could even register it? Jane’s crazy fast, too.... 👀

Now I’m back to wondering if Ran-Mao isn’t entirely human. Maybe any blood they were collecting from her isn’t useful? Idk. 😐

Sure would help explain why Lau rose so fast in the ranks at Qīng Bāng.... 🤔

[abybweisse]

Ch169, The shapes of souls

I’ve been wondering for some time what Jane knows about souls. In ch168 she doesn’t mention it at all when she’s explaining about the cloaked figures but says she doesn’t even know why the blood is being collected.

However, she definitely previously mentions it when she’s chatting with Mey-Rin about Heathfield’s search for a new wife. Someone to replace his wife... be it because of her personality, her appearance, her sexual chemistry with him, or the “shape of her soul”.

In ch169, the “bride candidates” confront Heathfield about the false promises he made them.

And about his lack of proper technique.... 😏

But now I’m thinking it’s possible that Jane simply heard the things Chris Heathfield told those women, and then she started to repeat the same terms... without actually understanding where it came from. Perhaps she thinks that’s something Chris came up with. That he’s simply crazy.

But I think it had to have come from Undertaker. Either he spun stories that Heathfield wanted to hear, just like he did with Rian Stoker, or he really was experimenting with placing souls from “donors” into the lifeless corpse of Heathfield’s wife.

And now Chris Heathfield is in Yard custody. What will he say while in custody?

Also, note that this was the “blood factory in the north”. I suspect that the orphanage will turn out to be the other major “blood factory”. The sanatorium could also turn out to be a “blood factory”, but I have a hunch it will be more like a transfusion location, like what was found in Bath... a place where the cult receives funding in return for providing medical treatments.

[abybweisse]

Ch168, Jane is a quitter

These two pages were left out of the spoilers I saw.

She’s a lot like Mey-Rin, in that she was hired to be a guard disguised as a maid, but they are very different in that Jane is only in it for the money. She has no emotional ties to Heathfield Manor.

And after being hired, she was introduced to the hidden chamber where all the young women were being kept to collect blood.

(I will post more later today, but I need to get dressed for work right now.)