Editing Blake Thorburn (section)

===Duress===
Blake gets the other members of his family to scatter about and tell them yell if anything comes for them when the [[Others]] start coming in, with [[Pizza Man]] and the [[Faceless Woman]] being the first of the group, as well as an [[Zeitgeist]] [[Bogeyman]] who started chasing after Peter. He kills the bogeyman while Eva fights the [[revenant]] until Alexis is unable to move due to bleeding too much of herself and Blake gives her a spirit bird to help her, taking his own strength away in the process. After that they retreated to the second floor.

Blake uses the reflections to brutally slaughter the [[Homonculi]], blood scattering across the floor and walls to give him more room to work with as he drew power from their fear until a larger Other, who he calls a mountain-man, brutally beats him and takes the Hyena blade in the aftermath, forcing him to use more power to regenerate and nearly returning to [[Limbo]]. Returning he sees that there are a pair of twins of some kind and an automation and he tries to take the mountain man and enlists Green Eyes to help while he deals with the twins. He manages to get them to kill themselves, but he sustains more damage and loses more power as Green Eyes, Ty, Alexis, and Eva manage to take out the mountain-man.

He then has the family and other defenders retreat into the library, where Eva returns to her brother's side costing him the only leverage he had to keep her in check as the automation stopped them from shutting the door. A [[Bane]] comes in and, after [[Callan Walker|Callan]] dies, he finds the book on it and tells them its weakness before comforting [[Christoff Walker|Christoff]] once it's done. He then suggests that they set a section of the house on fire to put pressure on those others and people watching, and since they can't fight or hide for long, but it leads to an argument so he tells everyone to take turns by seniority.

He starts explaining who he is and what's going on, before stopping [[Alexis]] from saying whatever she was going to since the spirit-bird he gave her acts as a connection and he could pick up something she didn't want him to by accident. It cost him a fair bit of trust with her regardless by admitting it. [[Tiffany]], explains that she's worried that the part of him that came from The Drains is urging him towards thinking about using fire because it wants him to break down things like it does, and [[Tyler]] states while they are worried about him he's more concerned with a strategy.

[[Evan]] suggests using the rooftops, but Blake thinks against it, [[Green Eyes]] will do whatever she can as long as he promises to bring her back if she gets killed, and Peter wants to know about Demons. Blake explains that in December they would have resembled one another and [[Abstract Demon|the demon that nearly got him]] left him in this state. Kathryn wants more clarification, Ellie thinks the situation is fucked up, Roxanne only wants to know if they really can't lie (which is worrying in its own way), and Christoff wants to know if he could bring back his brother if he became a [[practitioner]].

A hole is poked into the libray then and he realizes they're out of time, but looking at Green Eyes he gets the idea for all of them to get into The Drains as a means of escape. They eventually open a gate to Limbo, but land in a different manifestation of it known as The Tentement, where he has to keep them moving as Roxanne comes under assault by bugs eating into her skin and Kathryn being attacked by evil clowns. On his way out Limbo shows him a vision of the past where Rose explains to his friends that he and she were both halves of the same person made from Barbatorem and are destined to kill one or the other. He could gain his life back by weakening Rose or killing her, and she intended to get rid of him, and his friends promised of their own free will. Hearing this the number of spirit-birds inside of him multiplied from the feeling of betrayal.

While struggling to keep his anger in check he saves Christoff from falling to his death and then has Green Eyes and [[Tyler]] go get sticks and bones to build a body for him to go back into the physical world since the mirror broke, before brokering a deal with the other [[Bogeyman]] that nearly came after [[Roxanne Thorburn|Roxanne]]. Once the body is built he tears out branches, spirits, and his own heart with [[Evan]] and [[Green Eyes]] helping him before they leave the humans behind to deal with the monsters.

He makes his way up the slope where he runs across three Japanese [[Others]] that tell him late-comers aren't wanted as they are still trying to kill [[Midge]] and divide her into shares of meat. Blake tells them he just wants to start a fire as a means of expression and they aren't strong enough to actually stop him. When they relent he goes and gathers materials for the fire until Midge recognized him and leads to him being outed, he flees into the trees in order to start the fire with Green Eyes and then slays two Others that pursue him before telling the Japanese one from before to inform Johannes the fire is to lure the others out. He then goes over the fence and sees other [[practitioners]] watching the fire, seeing them as monsters to be killed.

Blake sneaks around to find Joyce Anne Duchamp, Lola's mother, and makes her take an oath not to interfere for the night and he lets her leave with someone named Gail. Blake, Green Eyes, and Evan then confront a necromancer and ogre shaman and another woman, who they dispatch with Blake leaving the necromancer to bleed out from a slashed throat in a ring of blood with the other corpses, before heading after the Behaims. He slashes the throat of the one commanding the clockwork men only for time to reset and [[Alister Behaim|Alister]] reveals he has the weapon and [[Rose]] is by his side with an engagement ring.