although the hunt for rose was over , it had created more questions that it had answered . `` you ca n't send me away again , '' she said softly . although pete and bob were very different kids with very different interests , i had a lot in common with both of them . by the time the cops responded , he would be gone . that word did n't begin to describe what i was . i am to take him , and slay him that our future and the future of others may be preserved . 