[@akje]

Silver bullets would do nothing. Although they're probably using hollow-point rounds to maximize the damage. If you manage to destroy the brain, you kill them. Other than that, nothing will bother them.

Also, I always thought there was more to turning someone into a vampire than biting them. Like, they have to drink some of your blood as well, or something like that.

But all these fledgelings aren't going to be biting anyone. I mean, if you were suddenly attacked and turned, would you go around spreading vampirism? Especially with a group of soldiers shooting at you, you're going to be running like crazy. They'll lie low until they get hungry, maybe return to the locations that meant something to them in life.

Also, wouldn't slaughtering the Fledgelings be illegal? I mean, technically speaking, they haven't broken the Compact. I'd think there would be some moral compunction to slaughtering what are essentially innocent bystanders.