Doesn't the victim of the hunt get torn to pieces though? I suppose that makes sense if from there Blaine has to rebuild his bits to get on to being his own person. Eta: the hunt presages catastrophe and witnesses sometimes died, or were whisked away to join the hunt...
Blaine goes back to dalton? Catastrophe = change?

FWIW, you explain things really clearly in these posts and I think, if you have the time and want to put together a crash course, it would be totally appreciated.