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True, true. But these fledglings are made by Void.
They carry a whole deadly cocktail of death that they will spread all over the city and coutry side when they get away.
How will civil war stricken america fare under a dozen new plagues?
We're talking shoot on sight and burn the bodies type of situation.

I had the soldiers hesitate because they are in fact civilians, but finally shoot because martin put them in a tight spot and pressured them as panicked vampires ran in all directions.