“That doesn’t make us anything like the Doms. We don’t kill people on a whim, for pleasure, or for any twisted notion that it’s God’s will. We do it to protect others from them, period. Releasing murderers and rapists into the wild . . . If the beasts don’t get them, they can only continue to prey on travelers and those living farthest from aid. That won’t do anymore, Alcalde Periz, not for any of us.” He saw Varaa nodding slightly, but Har-Kaaska was still inscrutable.
