Editing Rose Thorburn Junior (section)

===Mala Fide===
Rose demands Blake answer who he is and he confess his past to her, but she could not trust him due to the fact that there was no way to verify his identity as well as the fact that he was a [[bogeyman]] who held a grudge against her and there were no absolutes about him. After he warned her not to gamble with his friend's lives and how to deal with the [[Abstract Demon]], she expelled him from the house.

She later confronts her Aunt Irene and Callan, who are trying to wrest the Hillglades House from her and realizes that it is a trap meant to get all of the Thorburn Family together and points out that them. When Blake offers his assistance, she tells him he will earn no favor doing so and should he fail she will run out of her limited patience with him.

Later on, when [[Jeremy Meath]] attacked her home and brought down most of the protections she banished James Corvidae as he had implied that he would 'take care of her' while she slept. Upon waking and finding herself bound by Jeremy, she revealed she had set a dead-man's switch that would release [[Barbatorem]] should she die. Jeremy and Rose then made a deal, with her accepting 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 is 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 expends it. She then leaves with the others as [[Molly]] got loose from [[Mags]] and could cause complications.