The $450 Manhattan Room Mystery: Why Was a Famous Surgeon Performing Midnight Blood Rituals Behind My Wardrobe Wall?
👉 Previous Decision: You chose Option B – Go directly to Mount Sinai’s Chief of Surgery with Rivera’s bioethics files.
Clutching Dr. Rivera’s meticulously compiled bioethics documentation, I walked into the Mount Sinai executive boardroom. A long, polished table dominated the room, surrounded by stern-faced trustees. Dr. Finch sat at the head, seemingly unfazed.
I placed the stack of papers before them, my hands trembling slightly. “Dr. Finch is operating a private, unapproved surgical chamber in his residential brownstone,” I stated, my voice shaking but clear. “He’s performing midnight blood rituals, using arcane symbols and modern equipment.”
I laid out Rivera’s analysis of the guild’s history, the strange blend of occult and medical, the historical precedents. I described the hole in the wall, the red lights, Dr. Helen Vance on the operating table.
Instead of the horror I expected, the board members exchanged awkward glances. Their faces, usually impassive, showed a flicker of discomfort, not shock. They looked at Finch, then back at me, then at Finch again.
Finch sighed, a long, weary sound. He slowly closed his leather notebook on the table. He did not deny it.
“I admit,” Finch said, his voice calm, resonating with an unexpected authority. “I have been running an unapproved clinical ritual guild inside my home. For a very specific, historical purpose.”
The room fell into a heavy silence. Finch’s admission hung in the air, dense and undeniable. The board members simply nodded, as if this was merely an administrative inconvenience, not a criminal confession.
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