Charles keened long and low.

The thirst had grown in him like a fury ready to unleash, a wild primal urge that could no longer be tamed by his former glory.As his body and mind crumbled, so did everything else that had defined him, his noble birth, his aristocratic upbringing, his pride and eloquence, his humanity.He was now reduced to a savage beast out for blood alone.

He had been walking with slow and sometimes unsure steps along the Potomac Beltway Park.Joggers ...