The Blood List: They Need to Die

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Note: Out of Print/Unpublished September 2016.
Savannah has nothing left, her family – all ghosts, all dead. One thing she can do is find the monster who raped and murdered her step-sister. She knows how to find the detail in the devil. It's her profession, and she's good at it. Lost in her grief and loneliness, Van makes the decision. Steps onto the path of action. She didn’t mean to kill. It was an accident. The first time. Ghosts come for her, they blame her. Is it true? Has she become the monster?

Conflict- The Desire to Right a Wrong that insults the notion of social order VERSUS disdain for social institutions.
That's what conflict is; the juxtaposition between what we know is right, and what we want to do to make things right. There are times when that conflict is insurmountable, or at least, that's how it appears. The conflict of someone who has always abided by the rules of law and society they live in, who then becomes a victim, or who loses all they had, or who has waited so long for things to happen - for the bad to be fixed - that they chose the other side.
The dark side. We call it that. When someone chooses to enact vengeance, or payback, or to rectify a problem.
This is where Van begins. She kept in touch with the investigation into the rape and murder of her 12yo step-sister. The case is declared a 'cold' case. What does that mean? To Van, it means her mother commits suicide - because she failed as a mother, because she can't make it right.
Now, Van has nothing and no one who cares about her, no one alive she can care about, share with. She has no community left.
What can she do? The highly skilled IT security officer uses her professional skills to find detailed information about the list she saw - the POI list. To track them down, to pass the information to the police, to do something, anything, to fill that hole.
Did she do the right thing? If it's the right thing for her, why didn't someone else do it?
Why do we feel we can justify these actions?