Editing John Stiles (section)

===Story Start===
He is in line for the [[Carmine|Carmine Throne,]]<ref>“Nobody has stepped forward.  This isn’t surprising.  If one declared themselves for the seat and the role as the next Carmine Beast, there would be a brief period they could be cut down or supplanted.  It is easier, especially among the murderous and dangerous types that would take this role, to let someone else make the first move.  We may be forced to select someone, which would make them vulnerable, force them to prove themselves.”<br><br>“And who are the candidates?” Verona asked.<br><br>“You know them because they are in Kennet.  The first is John Stiles, who is not especially strong, but we think he would serve with a mind to balance, making him our preference.  The other is your Hungry Choir.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]</ref> he does not want the Role and would lose his identity, what makes him ''him'' if he took the seat.<ref>She looked out over a cocooned Kennet, with its throbbing, writhing larvae of a heart beneath it, all dotted with dull blue lights.  “I think the Carmine Beast’s blood is soaking into things.  Makes that sort of mess more likely.”<br><br>“Aye,” Alpeana said, as she reached over from branch to branch, moving through the woods.  “It’s a right bloody fankle.”<br><br>“That fankle ends if John steps up to the role of Carmine,” Matthew said.  “That influence would be his.”<br><br>“And that’d be a good thing?” Verona asked.<br><br>“I think so.  I like John, I respect him.  And I think he’d be a good judge.  Different, but good.”<br>[...]<br>Edith added, “Yes, but I worry about what follows.  I don’t think John survives it, for one thing.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref>

He helped out at the end of year party when Melissa Oakham stole Verona's bag and unwittingly sent a summon's agaisnt the trio.

He went to the [[Blue Heron Institute]] in order to protect the trio after [[Lawrence Bristow|Bristow]] tried to take over the school and ended up shooting [[Alexander]] just before he left to return to Kennet.

He helped Avery when the [[The Wolf]] attacked her and the [[Garrick family]] on [[The Station Promenade]].

He accepted his invitation to the Carmine contest as a way to release his squadmates from their bindings. They took Oaths to fight evel where they could. In the contest, he killed Ingvard, Lauren Snyder, Reid Musser, and then Breastbiter before dying to Charles.

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