Chapter 102: Factions

In the dark, moonless night, a tentacle crawled among the trees like an oversized worm. The night was silent, but Hiro still crept carefully. Hiro needed to find out whether Elizabeth could convince the other batkins.

Hiro was worried about the fate of that vampire girl. The way the vampire turned hostile like that, Hiro wondered whether it was just a momentary impulse or a lifelong grudge. Once evil humans tasted power, it would be impossible to go back.

Hiro could feel that the batkins were about to split into two factions—one who chose to stay batkins, while the others chose to return to being vampires. Rebecca didn’t think batkins could split into factions since there were barely two dozen batkins here. But Hiro thought otherwise. As long as there were more than two humans, factions could form, and civil war would follow, no matter how small the community was.

It took