Part 1, Chapter 5, Khayman, My Khayman Summary

Khayman fells that he has just awoken from a deep sleep. He remembers nothing about himself except that he is a blood drinker, and he brutally kills and eats four or five humans a night. He dreams of a red-haired woman whose tongue was cut out by soldiers and who grabs the tongue back from them and eats it. He is very lonely.

One night he sees three young blood-drinkers, only a few hundred years old and still made mostly of human tissue. He realizes that he must be very old since most of his human tissue has turned into a hard white marble-like substance. He tries to follow the vampires to talk to them, but they are afraid of him and run away. He becomes angry and accidentally kills one of them with a...