Editing Reid Musser (section)

==Chronology ==
He spent his youth travelling, visiting many countries, and doing tasks for the Musser family. He visited Japan to learn about familiar practices, studied astrology in Australia, meet a chosen champion in Rome, and inspected a rival cousin of Graubard in Venice and schooling in London. He has also spent time in Dark Summer and High Spring.<ref>“Japan, to study their familiar practices.  Australia to learn with an Astrologer.  I picked up Blackhorne while on a ship between there and Canada.  An errand to Rome to meet the chosen champion of a pagan deity and judge if they were of a caliber that Durocher might be interested in.  They weren’t.  Then, hm, Venice to meet a rival cousin of Graubard in dollmaking enterprises.  Some background decisions being made there, about whether the Blue Heron network would keep Graubard or favor the cousin instead.  Then London for a trial run at schooling, explored some, got Drowne.  Then the Faerie courts, High Spring for three days, that felt like ninety, Dark Summer for a week to run another errand, finding someone for a family friend- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

Whilst in London he and his father brutally attacked a homeless girl in order to get her familiar, [[Drowne]].

He travelled to Paris to learn [[spellbinding]] only to discover the head of the family had been assassinated, his death meant the release of the people he'd enslaved. One of these freed slaves went on to kill Eve Allement, a potential fiancée of his. Upon discovering the man Reid shot him dead, he then proceeded to help manage the crises and remove the rival family.<ref>Paris.  I won’t forget Paris.  I’d gone to the Underside of the city to visit with a person who could teach me spellbinding, except I arrived mere hours after the head of the family had been beheaded.<br><br>...“Spellbinders bind the living and when the patriarch had died his slaves had been freed.  The spellbinders were so focused on the Others in their midst that they’d forgotten the humans.  One of the humans was able to get in position to corner and kill Eve Allemand, who would’ve been another of my potential marriage prospects.  She died a few minutes after the first and last time she spoke to me.  The freed human had smashed his hands against her face and head until she’d died.  His hands had been so broken and bloodied by delivering the beating that he’d been unable to operate the doorknob to let himself out of the room.  So he’d just sat on the floor and waited two hours for someone to find him there.  It was me who found him.  Me who shot him where he sat.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

Afterwards he travelled to Soisson to live with a serial killer who had discovered how to make their [[demesne]] appear and disappear at will, he learnt her secrets and his father took her demesne for himself. He also rescued a pregnant woman that had been taken captured by her and helped deliver her baby.<ref> I traveled to a serial killer’s hovel in Soissons, because the shabby woman there had worked out some interesting things with practices and demesnes.  Talked my way into her company, spent two weeks barely able to sleep because she was so dangerous, even with my familiars guarding me.”<br><br>...<br><br>She was willing to hurt me while I slept, and slithered past the slightest gap in their watch over me.  Fatigue made it all harder.  She was able to sleep like a baby while the pregnant woman she was keeping captive in her demesne wailed and cried out for help.  I thought my heart was harder than it was, but it kept me up.”<br><br>...<br><br>“I did give her some assistance.  Some direct, some subtle.  I’d been trying for some time to harden my heart and exercise discipline and volition, but I couldn’t leave her completely alone, despite that.”<br><br>“Hmm.”<br><br>“Learned what I needed to learn about the demesne she maintained constant and free access to, slipping back to it at a moment’s notice to elude authorities, hm, delivered the baby, that was one bit of assistance I gave.  Took a life and helped bring life into the world, about one and a half weeks apart.  Then told my father what I’d learned about the demesne.  Matter of days later, I smoked outside while my father took it.  We sent the victim on her way with her baby, spellbound to forget we’d existed or where the hovel was.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/false-moves-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

After learning that [[John Stiles|John]] killed [[Alexander Belanger|Alexander]], he travelled to [[Kennet]] with his father [[Abraham Musser]] to investigate. Whilst there he got into a fight with a group of [[Witch Hunter|Witch Hunters]] and during the fight the Kenneter's used [[Montague]] to stop him practising. This allowed [[Drowne]] to escape his control and turn on him, forcing him to give up all the familiars and implements he'd stolen. He then attacked him, hurting so badly he ended up being hospitalised. The loss resulted in him losing considerable standing with the family.

After a few days, he was well enough to leave the hospital and return to the cabin his father had rented.<ref>The loss of his son hasn’t slowed him down, and he’s devoted very little time to visiting the hospital, or to the cabin, now that his son has been moved.”-[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/14/summer-break-13-4/ Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.4]]</ref>

[[Abraham Musser]] eventually decided to pick Reid to enter the contest for the Carmine's throne.<ref>“Preparing.  Reid’s getting a crash course in what Musser thinks will help him win.”<br><br>“He picked Reid?”<br><br>Wye nodded.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/summer-break-13-9/ Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.9]]</ref> During the contest he fought against [[John Stiles|John]], promising to hurry if he'd hear him out, asking John to send a message to his cousin. After dawdling John threatened to name him [[forsworn]] if he didn't start, John offers to urge [[Raquel Musser|Raquel]] to get away from her family and do something to remember [[Lauren Snyder]] then shoots him dead.<ref>- [[Break 5]]</ref>
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