There was no need to get violent.
But these were dark days for the people in Eldham. It was not only about the house search, which involved the soldiers throwing out random things on roads saying that 'it was necessary to search every corner'.
Freeda said that she had also seen people surrendering their friends, their neighbours, because they suspected them of murdering the unknown man. Now due to these misunderstandings, the detectives and the guards confirmed it to be a vampire's doing, removing the possibility of just any person.
It stirred the people more. Suddenly, they began claiming how beings, apart from vampires, were spreading horrors inside their homes. And those reports caused a proclamation of fire and wood from the Imperial Palace, a bonfire to be built in the middle of the capital.
It raised restrictions, especially for witches besides Eglantine.
