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Hmm...for this page I actually drew some hens. There is a first time for everything apparently. Anyway, blocks of text again. If the writing is too small, let me know. As usual, thank you for reading!
Historical note: Blood-letting, or bleeding, was a very common medical practice in the medieval period. It was usually preformed by a specialized barber-surgeon who would drain the blood at specified times. The belief was based on ancient Greek medicine which revolved around the 'four humors' theory. In fact bleeding usually did more harm than good, but that didn't stop people from requesting it. It was very popular among brothers in the Military Orders, and both the Hospital and the Temple had regulations forbidding the knights from being bled too often because it weakened their fighting abilities.
Poitiers...I wonder if the choice to have Night Brothers there is strategic? I am not sure exactly where the borders of al-Andalus were at the time of your story, but I DO remember Poitiers is where Charles Martel stopped the Moorish advance into Europe, and I DO know this was well before the Reconquista.
It's VERY fortunate that Sebastian will be able to sustain himself on animal blood. And I had not realized bloodletting was done when people were healthy as well as when they were obviously ill. I would have assumed it was some sort of bizarre form of "penance," except I THINK this is too early for the Black Death and the wild practices like Flagellantes, and so forth. So I guess this means Sebastian has a "blood bank" of sorts available.
Hopefully allergies due to blood type and Rh-factor are not a thing vampires concern themselves with given how far away the technology is to detect those things! 
I'm not sure we even had that understanding during the American Civil War, as to why certain transfusions succeeded where others failed violently.
I wonder how it feels to Sebastian--whether he can or would desire to eat normal food at all anymore. And how often he has to drink blood to stay alive.