Chapter 183: Chapter 184: Admittance Part 2

"The Leaders didn't believe I'd simply run. They knew I'd gone somewhere, done something, but I never confessed. So my escape was treated as a simple fleeing. They assumed my entire family perished in their raid. I was called a coward for abandoning everyone, but I never said a word. I couldn't. I had to protect Ruth. I saw what they were doing to the other humans - what they did. They called them contaminated; a plague. Everyone they didn't kill in the raid was slaughtered afterward. Until Blovid stopped it, of course. But by then there were only a handful left. Sampson and me and the other Arizals who had come to live with us were presented in front of the Leaders. Because Sampson was a Fychu at that point and the son of a great Vermix Leader, he was spared the Vermix prison and instead, ordered to a life of imprisonment at the Harrizel prison we created. We'd hoped to never use it, hoped it remained abandoned... but... as it was a ready alternative for them...