Editing Reid Musser (section)

==Relationships==
[[Drowne]] is unhappy with being his familiar, he disagreed with them being in Kennet and with their lack of a greater plan. He also argued with Reid about teaching [[Nova Aquila]] to read.<ref>“I don’t see a reason why we’re here, except pride and greed,” Drowne said.  He peered through perpetually wet hair, the skin of his face stretched tight across his features like hands were pulling on the sides, his expression either a macabre frown, corners pulled far back, or a macabre smile.<br><br>“Pride and greed are enough.”<br><br>“We keep making small decisions that hurt us,” Drowne said.  “I won’t claim to be a genius-”<br><br>Blackhorne barked out a laugh.<br><br>“-but I managed, once.  I feel like we’re not managing.  We’re- there’s a fundamental misunderstanding about all this.”<br><br>“There is,” Reid agreed.  “I’m sorry, Drowne, but the misunderstanding is yours.  ''We'' make the decisions.  You Others follow through.  That was the deal.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Drowne said.  “But things as big as… what’s the greater goal, except standing and power?  Your father talks about a movie he wishes to make, but he takes so few steps.”<br><br>Wye hissed through his teeth.<br><br>“Don’t denigrate my father,” Reid said.<br><br>“Things as small as Nova.  Teaching her to read would-”

<br />- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref> He later attacked Reid and forced him to release everything he'd stolen before crippling him.

[[Blackhorne]] is another of his two familiars, he is mildly fond of Reid but not enough to help him when he needed it most.<ref>Blackhorne was there, idly amused.<br><br>The sensations were hard to make out.  Amusement, a casual fondness… rejection.<br><br>''I like you some, but not that much''.<br><br>He could imagine it in Blackhorne’s voice.<br><br>Blackhorne wouldn’t help.

<br />- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

Reid considers [[Wye Belanger]] a friend and enjoys his company but only so much as it furthers his families interests.<ref>“Getting to where I stand with my father is the product of years of this, Raquel,” Reid told her.  “Never once having a friend ''merely'' for the sake of having a friend.  Always with a calculus for cultivating allies.”<br>“Truly!?” Wye asked.  “We’re not genuine buddies of the bosom?”<br>“Ha ha,” Reid replied.<br>“No, family allies first, but I do enjoy your company.”

<br />- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

He has been working hard to earn his [[Abraham Musser|fathers]] respect and sees many of the challenges he's faced as tests his father has set out for him.<ref>but there are reasons my father would offer that as one of the options that go beyond just recognizing one obvious trap.  It’s intended as a ''test'', Wye.  I went, but not as an escape from the Mussers.  If you leave of your own will, you aren’t invited back.  I kept their standards, even when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old, when I was filled with hormones, tired, scared, hurt, in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar standards.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

He feels as if [[Raquel Musser]] has been letting the family down and that her choice of friends is unproductive. He fears that if she continues travelling down his path she'll end up as useless as her mother was.<ref>''You rate lower than the Others like Nova,'' Reid thought.  ''And you’re so close to being removed from the picture, becoming a Donovan at best, a Billie at worst.''

<br />- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref> After entering the contest for the Carmine's throne he hoped she would be able to have something of her own outside the family.

His brother Donovan has been sidelined by the family due to failing to live up to expectations.<ref>It was never said out loud that I had to, but I’ve seen many family members fall by the wayside, some twice my age.  My older brother Donovan currently attends family business in Edinburgh.  When mentions are made of plans for the family, logistics, who should attend to what, he’s not a part of that planning, and his name rarely comes up.”<br><br>“I didn’t remember you had the older brother,” Raquel said.<br><br>“Case in point.  I have uncles who are the same.  Still ''of'' the family, but not ''the'' family, understand?”

<br />- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

He spent time with Kaye Knighton and after receiving his uncle's permission slept with her.<ref>Five days and four nights with the Knighton family in Minneapolis.  Much of my time was spent working right alongside Kaye Knighton, glancing at each other, smiling, making more, uh, accidental brushes of arm, shoulder, and hand than would be likely to truly happen by accident in a whole year spent together.”<br><br>“Ah, young love,” Wye said.<br><br>“She crawled beneath my covers one night while her father was out.  After kissing her, despite being… I can’t even describe, nearly out of my mind with an entire adolescence of pent-up urges, I couldn’t even reliably relieve myself with my hand-”<br><br>“Ew,” Raquel said.<br><br>...<br><br>“I can’t even begin to tell you how much willpower it took to crawl out of that bed so soon after she’d climbed in.  I told her I needed protection, which I did, but I also needed a moment to think.  I got my phone and decided to text my uncle.  It was too late to ask my father directly.  I asked if Kaye Knighton was acceptable.”<br><br>“The Knightons are fairly well to do.  Kaye is pretty and competent.”<br><br>“Yes.  My uncle thought as much.  I got the one-word affirmative, put on music as a way of excusing what I’d been doing on my phone, and returned to Kaye.  Until late in the evening.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

He was deeply touched by [[Lauren Snyder|Lauren Snyder's]] sacrifice and was angry that no one would know about her bravery, He felt as if the conversation he had with her was one of the few times he talked to a woman with his family being involved in some way.<ref>“I was talking to Lauren and I realized I don’t think I’ve ever had a conversation with a girl or a woman that was just me and her. If my family wasn’t there, or if they weren’t part of the reason I was talking to them, then they were still there in- strategy.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/09/28/break-5/ Excerpt] from [[Break 5]]</ref>
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