Thanks for the advice you guys - I wrote Bryan, and now realize why you all sing his praises
He wrote back so fast.
"Honestly, this is a toughy. I agree with everything you had stated, it being either ink/grease... these 2 are the toughest, most impossible, stains to removed.
If you were to take it back to the BV shop, they would send it out and do exactly what you said, extract the ink and re-dye it, but it won't be perfect.
Or, you can take it to reputable leather shop and have them do the same.
Either way, it's basically where you think they will do a better job. To be honest with you, for BV, once the ink/grease has saturated through our leather, it's going to be very difficult. Also, it is very hard to re-dye bags that are seasonal colors because we no longer carry that dye."
So I think I better do something fast - the 6 dots were separate a few days ago, but now they've all kinda morphed into each other. It's absorbing more as the days go on. I guess since neither BV nor the reputable store can guarantee it will look the same, I'll go with the reputable store here bc I can get it acted on fast, before more absorption takes place!