"So this was what, some attempt to kill everyone?" Jacen retorted sarcastically, not even believing that. "The future is never meaningless. Living is never meaningless. Not ever." It actually hurt him to see someone who had once been his friend just giving up like that.
"Where would we go? Let's say you're right and we give up on the people and run, where could we go? If someone isn't here, to make a stand against these vampires then when would it stop? They would spread, surely they would until there was no place left on the planet that was safe. So what would be the point in running?"