Editing Blake Thorburn (section)

=== Possession ===
Blake and the others try to flee from Barbatorem as the abyss changes around them and eventually has to confront it to buy other time. In the first encounter he loses a hand against it as well as the goblin in a chain, but manages to leave it behind long enough to get to the others. It is then he sees that Kathryn had been changed by the abyss into the beginning stages of a bogeyman. Unable to do anything for her, he asks her to flee before the demon catches up.

[[Diary Girl]] reappears to try and take revenge for before, only for him to hold her book at hostage and make her swear to never harm someone else again before leaving out with the others. When they near the top, Barbatorem has beaten them to the top and he and the others try to maneuver it into a trap, only for it to get out of it. They only manage to defeat it after [[Johannes]] allows it to reflect in his eyes and Blake cuts them with [[the Hyena]], before throwing his body over the edge and allowing the abyss to claim it. However, the battle cost [[Alister Behaim|Alister]] an arm and the ring holding his family power, several of the other Behaims, one of the [[Knights of the Basement]], and possibly [[Alexis]], who had gone missing.

On the way out, they run to a barrier holding them in place where he can hear Green Eyes reminding him of the ways to escape, one of which being they needed to defeat the gatekeeper. Venturing through the woodlands the abyss spawns for him, he reclaims his glamour locket and the broken bits of the Hyena Blade. At the end there is a throne for him, meaning that the abyss wants him to take the role of a gatekeeper in exchange for releasing the others.

The discussion comes up, with [[Evan]], [[Green Eyes]], and [[Rose]] arguing against it, while the [[Jeremy Meath|Jeremy]], [[Alister Behaim|Alister]], [[Tyler]], [[Tiffany]], are for it. Ultimately it comes down to the fact that a price would have to be paid for condemning him to his own personal hell. The Abyss shows him Alexis' death and revival as either a [[bogeyman]] or [[wraith]], before rooting him into place, where he would be forced to be eternally restless and angry unless he was defending the gate. Rose then offers herself in service as a [[Scourge]] for the Abyss, in exchange for letting them and Blake go, with her reciting a ritual to allow him to possess her as she takes his heart.

Inside of Rose, he is barely a fragment of a spirit now, and hears [[Conquest]]. As he learns to navigate the terrain, Conquest appears and though Blake has more power and presence inside of Rose, due to Conquest being a trickle, the incarnation gains more ground every time she draws on it and has a better understanding, allowing her (Conquest takes the form of [[Roselyn]]) to attack Blake while [[Ms. Lewis]] confronts the group over the house being taken. He later sacrifices memories of his friends to push back Conquest and make Rose more cooperative, and then his instincts so that she can bind a demon to prevent it from continuing to harm their group.