Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you're given a context passage, followed by a question that needs to be answered. Based on the paragraph, you must write unambiguous answers to the questions and your answer must refer to a specific phrase from the paragraph. If multiple answers seem to exist, write the answer that is the most plausible.

Before you were turned , before you were even born , it started it's bloody course . Everywhere men and women were dropping dead , children grew up wild having no parents to teach them the ways of man . It was a dark time and , being creatures of the night , we were kings .
Question: What may have caused the bloody course to start ?
People couldn't avoid death .