<span class="bbc_u"><strong>Chapter 1: After the Council</strong></span><br/><br/>Drusilia and Victoriana make small talk and a light breakfast. The Markiza speaks of her childhood mostly left to her own devices attended by terrified servants. She devoured every book she could in her family’s extensive library covering an encyclopedic collection of knowledge. She would leave the castle, sneak out is a more apt description, and hike across the crags and tors of Ravenna. She spent many a night out of the castle, returning to servants terrified they would be flensed for allowing her out. But only the same servants really noticed her absence.<br/><br/>“But now you will be showing me my new home, yes?” she asks Victoriana. “And then we will be making you more beautiful for your hungry wolf,” she whispers conspiratorially.<br/>