Editing Alexander Belanger (section)

===Before the Story ===
Alexander is the Augur who tricked [[Charles Abrams]] into becoming [[Forsworn]] so he could steal some of his stuff.

At some point he forswore a man by the name of Griffin Lytle.<ref>Griffin Lytle, forsworn by Alexander, far worse off than I ever was, he’s in the deep woods, barely holding on to humanity.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/04/23/wild-abandon-18-5/ Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.5]]</ref>

He founded the [[Blue Heron Institute]] by bartering favours with his family for the raw power and contacts necessary.<ref>Alexander had the institute in part because he’d bartered with family, getting the power as a kind of loan to get it started, then bartering again to get the good words, references, and contacts to bring people in.

If Alexander’s distant nephew got in any real trouble here, it disrupted that whole engine. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/stolen-away-2-z/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]
</ref> When his teenage apprentice Chase took Nicolette as an apprentice and set her to watch the Institute while he was gone, Alexander subverted her.<ref>He was her sponsor.  The one who had brought her into the circle.  
Alexander, in turn, was the one who had brought Chase in; Chase had been brought in because he was very, <em>very</em> good at dealing with 
certain kinds of Other, owing to his family ties, and because of the politics of it.  Making Chase an apprentice and teaching him all sorts 
of things about Seeing made for strong ties with Chase’s family.

He had expected something very different when he had found her. Leverage against Alexander, maybe.  More power.  A grateful girl a year 
younger than him.  Instead, Chase had had to go to school, he’d left her here to act as eyes, ears, and hands on things here, and Alexander had 
started to barter with her, making her more Alexander’s apprentice than Chase’s. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]
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