Editing Blake Thorburn (section)

===Damages===

Before the cease-fire that precedes and follows each council meeting, Blake leaves the house to gather supplies. He encounters trouble at a local store with his cousins (Molly's brothers) [[Christoff Walker]] and [[Callan Walker]], who accuse him of being responsible for Molly's death. The minor altercation that follows had apparently been set up by someone manipulating the connections between Blake and the Walker brothers. Laird soon arrives to collect Blake for the meeting at an old church. Responding to the murder of Molly, Blake attempts to sow discord among the local practitioners by warning of the Thorburn family's ability to summon countermeasures (such as the use of Barbatorem). Laird, however, smoothly neutralises this threat by revealing that the Behaim family are adequately protected from such dangers, and suggests that any unprepared parties take Blake's offer of protection.

After the meeting, Blake and Rose are escorted part way to the house by [[Johannes Lillegard]] and [[Maggie Holt]], who inform them that, without an opposing majority vote in Blake's favour, the powers in the council will attempt to execute the young Thorburn. Once alone with Blake, Rose reveals to him that she is a [[Vestige|vestige]] running on a limited time-frame.

The next day he binds the [[Ghost|ghost]] of [[June Burlison]] into a hatchet and summons the family lawyers: Mann, Levinn, and Lewis. The lawyers explain the scope of the Thorburn's karmic debt (nearly seven lifetime's worth). [[Mrs. Lewis|Ms. Lewis]] then assists him in binding the frost hatchet properly, and helps him in defeating a [[Faerie]] named [[Letita|Letiia]], the familiar of [[Joanna Duchamp]] and her older sister [[Penelope Duchamp]]. Ms. Lewis volunteers more information about Johannes' [[Demesne|demesne]] while warning Blake that he will not survive for long. Maggie later visits Blake, framing herself as a potential friend, but Laird soon arrives and reveals that Maggie murdered Molly under Laird's own orders, souring her attempts to ally with Blake.