Editing Blake Thorburn (section)

===Mala Fide===
He tells [[Rose]] of his identity and the others that were gathered, however most of them didn't trust him as they were at a time of war and because he came from the Drains he was essentially a [[Bogeyman]]. He realizes that it won't change for the time being so he instead explains that he's fragile as he is and the emotional damage he was taking from their conversation was killing him, as well as how to defeat the [[Abstract Demon]], and to warn her not to gamble with his friends' lives, before she expels him from the house.

Unable to get back, he searches for [[Maggie Holt]] only to run into [[Essylt|Ev]] and [[Keller]] and bluffed himself out of a conflict, knowing he had enraged them. He moves towards the school to find her, but finds that it is too well protected by the [[Duchamp Coven]] and [[Behaim Circle]] for any Others to enter. When one of these [[Others]], a faceless-woman tries to attack another over her territory being taken, a male rushes in and drags her away to warn her against it as it would start a conflict and they just needed to be paitent. It's the Blake realized he was talking about him as well.

The Other recognizes him from the [[Hillglades House]] and Blake recognizes them as the pair who tried to trick him into coming out during the pizza fiasco. [[Pizza Man]] is a [[Revenant]] and the [[Faceless Woman]] is a [[Bogeyman]], who explain that they being so new are not bound by the [[Seal of Solomon]], how Blake can gain power through fear, and the current state of Jacob's Bell is that Sandra wants to preserve tradition, Johannes wants a new world, where Others exist in ghettos, eating phantom sustenance, and the Behaims seem to think that they can make everything better if they’re in charge. He then calls [[Mags]] for Blake and departs.

While Mags diverts the majority of the information about her role in Toronto, she explains to Blake that the others knew this was coming, a challenge for Lordship, and that she tried to down play her role as a wildcard because it would upset the balance and make things worse. Since then she's acted on her duties as Ambassador and is waiting until everything is over before she tries to reclaim everything she lost and get revenge on [[Padraic]].

While she can't act or issue deals with the others, she also sees [[Rose]] as an even bigger threat because the hair she used in binding [[Conquest]] is acting as the source of taint seeping into her continuously. She does state she's happy to have him back as a friend, even though she wasn't sure that she could honor his request to see if she could summon [[Green Eyes]] and takes him to where the ghost of [[Molly Walker]] is.

Blake realizes she'd felt guilty all this time and, when Blake greets the ghost, it responds back to their surprise.

Mags takes Blake away from her because it was supposed to be what amounted to a grave visit and giving him some sort of advantage would go against her title of ''Ambassador,'' which is needed since [[Padraic]] stole her name and, if it gets taken away from her from being challenged, she could fall into [[Limbo]]. Molly's ghost, however, follows them away from her grave and Mags leaves Blake and her goblins under his command long enough to get salt so she could bind the ghost. During this time he sees [[Irene Walker|Irene]] and [[Callan Walker|Callan]] walking towards the [[Hillglades House]] and Molly follows, so he and Mags go to try and stop her.

Along the way he is attacked by a trio of [[Laiah]] and loses himself in the battle against one until Mags snaps him out of it. Recognizing them as possibly guests of [[Johannes]], she calls in a representative before it escalated into war and [[Faysal Anwar]] appeared. Faysal offered, in exchange for his allegiance, either a pathway that would allow him to travel freely between Limbo and reality or that he could free him from the mirror and nurture his Self to make him whole. Blake was tempted, but he refused and instead exchanged that he would drop his grudge against them and release the one held hostage in exchange for a passage into Johannes domain without trouble for the next day and a discussion, as well as nourishing him so he leaves happier and healthier than before.

He arrives to see Irene and Rose arguing over them challenging her for custodianship for the home and keeps Molly company until her family leaves. He then tells Rose he'd see about the legal trouble, to which she tells him if he fails she will have exhausted her limited patience with him, before he and Mags discuss their plans. After binding Molly's ghost to prevent any trouble, he planned to visit Johannes for that favor and then see what he could do about the legal trouble.

Things go awry as Molly snaps after Blake mentioned that she was the first heir, which she then revealed that she wasn't and she hated her grandmother and everyone had an agenda. She then flickered out and returned to her haunt. They arrive to see Irene and Callan there, both of whom question her aggressively until they leave. Blake suspects that the prophecy that Mags is attached to is trying to influence things, only for Molly to come and confront Mags about her death. It is then Blake realizes that Molly has become a [[Wraith]] and tries to reason with her, but Molly states it's between her and Mags and picks up a branch to draw a rune that allowed her to conjure wind that reached him in the mirror world and nearly banished him.

Blake, unable to help as he was, left Maggie to visit Faysal, who provided him with an image of his Self taken from [[Johannes]], revealing that the memories weren't destroyed but only lost. For his first favor, Blake asks that he hinders the [[wraith]] of [[Molly Walker]] to prevent complications from arising, which he can do by opening paths to dead ends, while the second was that he sees about freeing [[Green Eyes]] from "The Drains". Faysal agreed to do so in exchange for Blake going against [[Abstract Demon]], compensating for what he lost in fighting demons. He then opens a path to where Molly was, in a restaurant with a large number of the [[Thorburn Family]] not including Irene, Callan, and [[Paige Thorburn]].

Mags is there and plans to go in, asking whose the biggest troublemaker so that she has a story. He then remembers his promise to Rose and asks if there is a way to disturb what they are doing, to which she says naturally. She then goes in and picks a fight with [[Ellie Thorburn]] and ends up getting them put out while banishing Molly.

They find her where Blake first bound [[June Burlison]], in the back of the house where the hill met the glades, and Mags offers to take Molly as a [[familiar]]. Blake leaves at this point because he could only make things worse due to Molly feeding off his negativity to a extent, leaving for a mostly frozen-surface lake. Faysal meets him here and the two discuss the circumstances between Humans and Others, namely that humanity is winning and forcing others into the fringes and something would happen.

The conversation reveals that Blake has a hard time of believing that humanity is winning and uses himself as a reference due to how it seemed that entropy comes out ahead and uses himself as a reference of how he has changed because of it. He doesn't see a force of creation doing the same as "The Drains" did.

Faysal has two hypothetical answers to this: The first is that the force of creation doesn't take in anything, only spits it out and thus remains unnoticed. The second is that places and manifestations like "The Drains" do not take anything, but merely change them into something else, which isn't intrinsically bad even if unpleasant.

The source of the problem is that Blake is questioning how humanity can be winning if the forces of annihilation and ''Wrong'' are supposed to prevail over creation and ''Right''. He was wondering if that meant that humanity may be ''Wrong''. Faysal told him that humankind aren't innately ''Good'', but they aren't ''Wrong'' either, and he has taken more strides towards good than most people despite being one or two steps removed from them, to the extent he may as well be one.

Faysal leaves behind a set of rusty pipes in the shape of a rather unwieldy hoop. When Blake set it down on the water it melted enough ice that the water turned into a pathway to where [[Green Eyes]] was. Through it she was allowed into the real world and out of "The Drains", now free of it for the time being.

He couldn't hear her from his side of the mirror, but she could hear him. She promised him not to attack anyone or draw attention to herself that would get her sent back and to call for him if she needed him. After blowing him a kiss, he parted from her to go do something else productive to helping his friends.

At Laird's home he finds a pair of Behaims older than Laird leaving and hopped in the car from the mirror, listening to their conversation about how [[Duncan Behaim]] was calling in everyone who was capable, including children old enough to be awakened. When the older man, [[Ben Behaim]] noticed Blake he alerted his wife, [[Gloria Behaim]] and wanted to know why he was in the car and threatened to banish him.

Blake pointed out that he knew that they couldn't properly deal with him unless they knew what he was. He then informed them that Laird had been reckless and Duncan even more so and to avoid putting too much stock into what they say or do, which Ben agrees with and quickly figures out that Blake was responsible for killing Laird, to which he admitted was out of desperation. Blake tells them that he only wants to save his friends and would prefer that the grandchildren remain uninvolved and that he wants things to change for the better.

He leaves once Ben says he'll go and tell the others, telling him that Sandra will be more difficult to convince. Blake finds her talking to [[Jeremy Meath]] about assaulting the [[Hillglades House]] and learning that she knew that "of" him even if they didn't know what he was from Faysal. This meant he had to choose between protecting Molly and Mags or helping Rose to save his friends.

He set out to the Hillglades House first to try and warn them, but no one was where he could reach. Next he visited Mags and warned her they were coming after Molly and her if she completed the ritual when they felt a wave of power wash over the house and he went there to stop Jeremy.  He distracted them first by breaking glass when one of the  [[Maenads]], [[Kakia]], picked up their scent before reaching out and slashing with the Hyena.

He gutted the snake she carried rather than her wrist and thus earned her ire, having the Maenad chase him around with the intent to kill him. He tried to lure her into attacking Jeremy, only for it to narrow fail because her loyalty was greater than her anger. Jeremy then took over, telling Blake that because of his favor by [[Dionysus]], Rose would be in a state similar to being drunk once she woke up, which was a risk none of them could take given if she said one wrong word then she could call down a demon.

Blake distracted them and tried to get to the room, finding the bookcase ajar, only for something to break his mirror and shunt him away. It left him unable to do anything as Jeremy and the Others with him found the rest of his friends unconscious and helpless.

He called to Evan and helped him escape to the first floor, where the two of them fended off a satyr and maenad that came for them until they tried to return up the stairs, where he was shunted into the large mirror in the library and sealed by Jeremy. Rose had awakened and revealed she had set a dead-man's switch that would release [http://pact-web-serial.wikia.com/wiki/Barbatorem Barbatorem] should she die, so Jeremy was forced to deal and Rose accepted the rules for the Lordship contest that she rejected prior and information on sealing Blake in exchange for him leaving the property, which diffused the first attack.

Once Blake was caught in the mirror in the study, she tells him that while she does believe him now that she's done her research and can't let him go for reasons unspoken. She also reveals she knows she's been tainted by [[Conquest]] and is using him as a power source, so he doesn't get a hold on her as long as she expending the power. Blake makes a final plea to [[Alexis]] and Evan to free him, but Alexis refused while Evan was unable to as the rest left to deal with [[Molly]], as their attempts with Mags interrupted the familiar contract dealing and left her unbound and a potential hazard they couldn't afford.