Torn Journal Page

[This page looks to be torn from a journal. Amidst unfinished sentences and crossed out lines you can decipher the following.]

I have found the exsanguinated body of the missing son and am writing this as the flames consume it. In the morning I will track the vampire that did this into the ashlands. Once it has been destroyed I will bring its dust and his ashes back to his parents, but I cannot stand to face them in my failure.