Editing Charles Abrams (section)

==History==
After leaving home he meet a group of kids that would break into houses and throw parties in them, one of these houses contained books on the Practice and he used that to learn how to become a [[Summoning|summoner]].<ref>“No.  I got to my mid-teens, my mother never changed, I got fed up paying for her and me, I left too.  Met some kids who would find isolated houses where the families were going away, break in, and throw big parties with a small entry fee, trash everything, three hundred people who’d steal everything that wasn’t bolted down.  One of the houses had books on practice.  I took as many as I could load into the car.  They stopped throwing the big break-in parties after we had too many burglar alarms in a row, used the money they had to start selling drugs instead.  We amicably parted ways.  Then I started summoning Others to help them out for a cut of profits.  I’d tell them I knew someone scary that’d deal with any problems they had.  That ended badly.”.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/false-moves-12-6/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.6]]</ref>

This evolved into him working as a fixer for organised crime groups, summoning [[Other|Others]] for various jobs for them. This continued until he ended up getting arrested and imprisoned for two years.<ref>“Prison,” Lucy said.  She looked at Snowdrop.

“We knew that,” Snowdrop said.

“What did he do?” she asked.

“Theft, some violent crime.  He dealt with some criminal groups as a youth, only a few years older than you are now.  To them, he was a lucky charm, a ‘fixer’.  He did very well for himself, until he didn’t.  It caught up with him.  He went to prison for two years, turned eighteen, and had his record wiped clean.  They didn’t let him stay on the straight and narrow.  They maintained the expectations and no longer treated him as unabashedly ‘lucky’.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/cutting-class-6-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.4]]</ref> A gang in Toronto he was working with was attacked by a [[Revenant]], she killed the top three gang members and left Charles handcuffed in a warehouse filled with evidence.<ref>“Mine were human,” Charles said.  “Well… technically, it was a revenant.  She came after us, licked with flame like she’d just been set on fire.  This was… I was barely over sixteen, I think.  A gang in Toronto was on the rise, and whenever they got stumped or ran into something strange, they’d come to me.  I’d tell them, hm, you know, I’m thinking of one particular asshole, he’s a real monster.  If you want to leave an indelible mark in their minds and hearts, this would be just the bastard.”

“Bogeyman?”

“Or a vestige with a bit of elemental nestled inside.  Or a ghoul, if I want the crime scene cleaned up.”

“You’re a scary man, Charles.”

“I was scarier then, even if I didn’t realize it.  Revenant came tearing through.  Horror movie stuff, custom endings for each of us, starting with the lowest rank guys, then moving up.  Attacked our business, our alliances, stock, money, revealed secrets.  Crucified one guy with rebar she’d hooked up to a heat source, took the bones out of a woman’s arms and legs and left her in a shallow hole in the rain, to drown.  She had a vendetta in the way only the vengeful undead can.  And the thing that got me was… we had no idea who it was.”

“Each death is a hint,” Alexander said.  “But you know that.”

“Yeah.  The revenants need to stay anchored in this world.  They do it with keepsakes, which means you’ve got to look for the places they hit before they start coming after people.  Reach the start of the trail before they get to the last of you.  And we couldn’t.  The guys I was working with cooperated, I told them to investigate and they did.  We contacted police, we were everywhere.  We narrowed it down to a certain neighborhood, a select few people, and couldn’t get any further than that.”

“How’d you get out of it?” Raymond asked.

“I didn’t.  She got the third, second, and the top guy.  I pulled out all of my tricks.  A few of my monsters, and she still got me.  Decided I wasn’t directly involved enough to die, so she’d leave it up to fate.  Handcuffed me in the electrical room of an abandoned warehouse with a lot of the evidence.  Cops eventually came, and I got my first stint in prison.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/05/gone-ahead-7-x/ Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.x]]</ref> Him summoning Others damaged their [[innocence]] and made the gang more vulnerable.<ref>Me summoning Others opened the door for a revenant to rise up to get revenge against them, I think.  It hurt their innocence, left them vulnerable.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/false-moves-12-6/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.6]]</ref>

He served as Kennet's sole Practitioner for a decade.<ref>“There have been some arguable cases like Edith and Matthew here, but Charles was the sole <em>practitioner </em>of
 Kennet for a good decade.  But for him, you three girls, and the 
natural things one might expect to find in forest clearings, those here 
are best described as <em>Others</em>.  Beings that naturally exist 
beyond the realms and ken of man.  Charles would… manage us.  Keep 
people safe from us, keep us safe from people, and handle problems.”  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/lost-for-words-1-1/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]</ref> His knowledge in creating Others helped [[Matthew Moss|Matthew]] stabilize the [[Edith James|Girl by Candlelight]].<ref>This was their fourth visit with Charles.  He had told Matthew what to do to help her smooth over the gaps, and to bring things closer into alignment. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/one-after-another-10-z/ Excerpt] from [[One After Another 10.z]]</ref>

He strongly disapproved of the idea of awakening the [[Kennet Trio]], arguing they were too young.<ref>“Children?” the man with the thinning hair asked, again.  He sounded kind of outraged.<br>
“It made sense,” Miss said.  “Everyone agreed.  You included.”<br>
“I didn’t- I wouldn’t have… not if I knew it was children.”

[...]

“Do not,” Charles growled.  “I’m telling you three.  Walk away now.”

- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/lost-for-words-1-1/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]
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===[[Back Away|Fall of the Perimeter]]===
He warned both [[Clementine Robertjon|Clementine]] and [[Melissa Oakham|Melissa]] about the dangers and consequences of becoming enmeshed in the Practice.<ref>“You, Melissa,” he told the girl.  “You stand at the beginning.  You want to be where she is.”

He indicated Clementine.

“Nobody should want to be where I am,” Clementine said.

“That’s the point, isn’t it?” he asked, his voice rougher, his tone biting, like he was calling her stupid.  “And you, Clementine.  You want the answers?”

“Please.”

“Then take a long, close look.  The answers don’t give you better.  If anything, it’s all worse.  You know what’s about to happen to you, and you’re caught up in it.  I had the answers.  I paid the price.  I would give anything, not that I have much, but I would give anything to be where she stands, again.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/back-away-5-c/ Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.c]]</ref>

He was held prisoner by [[Rad Ray Sunshine|Ray Sunshine]] but [[Seth Belanger|Seth]] and [[Maricica]] released him.<ref>- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/09/02/break-1/ Excerpt] from [[Break 1]]</ref><!--
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