Editing Blake Thorburn (section)

===Conviction===
Blake is taken into custody and interrogated by police officer [[Duncan Behaim]], who has engineered the arrest at his uncle Laird's request to prevent Blake from fulfilling his deadline for Conquest. Duncan says that he no personal issue with Blake but that it is to the advantage of his family and the world if he gets rid of a diabolist. He then manipulates his fellow interrogator into questioning Blake about matters of magic, such as whether Blake sees [[Goblin]]s. Unable to lie for fear of being forsworn, Blake refuses to answer and is incriminated by the implications of such seeming insanity.

Evan's ghost is still present and attempts to help Blake, but the next morning the boy's body is deteriorating to the point that the ghost is becoming less and less anchored to the world. Blake manages to summon one of the Knights of the Basement for help and breaks Duncan's hold over the officers by casting aspersions on the Behaim's integrity in the case thrice over. However, Duncan uses [[Chronomancy|chronomancy]] to rewind time to the morning again, and prevents Blake from summoning help again.

Blake bleeds himself to give power to Rose, having realized that Pauz had reversed their relationship such that Blake was leeching her limited power resources rather than the other way around. He then escapes his cell and breaks out of Duncan's Escher-like stairwell trap to find Evan's body. Knowing that Evan can no longer move on in peace, Blake instead performs the rite of the [[Familiar]], making Evan his Familiar after the ghost willingly recites an Other's Oath. Duncan confronts the pair, explaining that Blake's extreme bloodletting has risked possession and worse by malicious Others. As the Behaim escorts him back to his cell, Blake frantically insists to the other officers that Duncan had illegally taken the [[Frost Hatchet]] from Blake's coat pocket.

Panicking, Duncan slows the movement of the other officers and attempts to shoot Blake. Evan makes the shots miss and reveals that he has retrieved both Blake's Locket and the Implement that Duncan needed to reset time. As a result Blake is allowed to walk free, determined to confront the Abstract Demon against the cautions of Fell and Rose. The battle is disastrous, and it is implied that several of Blake's allies are lost, erased from the timeline, with only the demon's claw to show for their effort.