They returned to the manor to find Elowen and Garrick waiting anxiously in the main hall, having received word of the disturbing confrontation through a messenger Kane had sent ahead, and Wren watched relief flood both their faces the moment she and Kane walked through the door, visibly whole despite the morning's ordeal.
"We heard something happened," Elowen said, crossing the hall quickly to embrace her daughter. "A binding, Fenn said, something about Thackeray reaching through Damaris somehow."
"It's handled," Kane said, though his voice still carried the rawness of everything he'd processed that morning. "He's being moved to a more secure facility, with wards specifically designed to prevent whatever arrangement allowed that binding to function."
"And Damaris?" Garrick asked.
"Reco
