"She should be put out of her misery before everything she is has been lost forever," he said coldly, acknowledging the instant denial in the other Vârcolac's eyes, but knowing it needed to be done for the good of all innocents the rogue wolf might encounter when they moved on.
"We have to try, Kothi..."
"It will be a mercy, Dara," he countered reaching to take the woman from her arms. "I will do what is necessary. Go now, and succour the other wounded while I do."
He would take no pleasure from this killing, not as he had taken from the others. He was merely better equipped to deal with the problem than Dara was. It cost him nothing to take the she-wolf's life, he would lose no sleep over the mercy kill, though his fellow Vârcolac would.
A shrill scream from behind them blasted the ai
