deleted scene (chapter seven). (Patreon)

an alternative scene in chapter seven. this one gives less of a choice and forces you more on the path of staying in the vip room than checking out the commotion, which is why i scrapped it and wrote the current version. this is only Rylan's variant, but as you can tell, it sees the hunter going out to meet the ro/chosen partner rather than the other way around. the hunter is also the one who thinks about staying in the room in this version, which made it even more difficult for me to present the other choice.

of course, the other choice (checking out the commotion) wasn't actually planned at the time. chapter seven saw a huge writer's block for me (when do i not have it, let's be real) so i really struggled with branches and variations. i got there eventually though; that's all that matters.