He has walked the earth for nearly 500 years, but Phayu has not found what his people call a 'draugs', a mate, a person who will walk with them in the insufferable darkness that is their life. So he decides to take that one step - find a way to end...
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"I have everything we need to know about them," Win said, as he pointed towards the screens in the command centre. "We can ignore the personal information for now. What you guys need to know is the fact that the rogues are being made," he added. "Being made? What does that mean?" Dean asked. "What is a rogue?" Dean asked. "A vampire who kills the victim while feeding," Sky spoke up. "That's correct. They have a different stench to them, and their looks change. Rogues kill indiscriminately, making it a problem for them to stay vampires, so they stop looking young and healthy. However, the rogues we faced, none of them were like that. Except for the ones in the Uni bathroom, the rogues were impeccable, showed signs of intelligence. Except for that foul stench, we would have never pegged them as rogues if we had passed them in the streets, correct?" Dean said.
Everyone looked thoughtful. "So what are you trying to say?" Bun asked. "These are not your regular rogues. They are highly trained people being turned rogues," Dean said. "How do you turn rogue?" Vegas asked. "Well, drinking the blood of a rogue also makes you one. Because the composition of their blood starts changing once you start killing your victim while feeding. I am a 100 percent sure this is the reason you all never picked up on Ken and others turning," Dean said. "This all makes so much sense. That is why, yesterday, they were so organised," Pai said. "Precisely. The Council seems to have found a way to do this," Dean said. "Converting perfectly normal vampire into rogues. I understand the Council's greed and motivation for absolute power. But why did the vampires agree to it out of their own will?" Porche asked, his distaste clear.
"We don't know if it was of their own will yet. How do we know that the Council doesn't have something against them, some past transgression, something to do with their family?" Pai asked. "So, the question here is; when we fight against them, do we kill them?" Phayu asked, plunging the whole room into silence. "We might not have a choice," Dean said. "They may still be intelligent and all that, but the truth is; they are too far gone. We will be ending a torture." "It still feels like murder," White said. "I know. But we have creed that we live by as enforcers. Save the innocents. And these are hardly innocent. We cannot forget that Ken and the rest kidnapped our Draugs," Dean said. "Remember how they turned humans? If rogues turn humans, imagine how they must be surviving now," Win said. "You said you had found a girl, and that you hid her. Do you think she is safe enough?" Fiat asked. "Damn! I forgot! If she was turned by them, she must be in unbearable pain by now!" Pai said. "It must be too late. I really don't know if we can do anything to save her," Phayu said, looking guilty.
"Bring her to us Phi Mate. We can help," Rain said quietly. "No! I will not jeopardise you four in trying to stave off my guilt," Phayu said, shaking his head. "Phi Mate, please trust us. We will not do anything to hurt us either," Rain said. "P'Phayu, many innocents have already been hurt. We don't need the blood of more," Sky said. Phayu was stumped. "Please trust me Phi Mate," Rain said, his voice intimately curling around Phayu. "Okay. We will get her here somehow. She can't find out where we are though," Win said. "Put her to sleep," Pharm said. The others nodded. "Okay," Pai said, effectively closing off that conversation.
