![]() As he turns away and swallows the pills, Neville grasps the reversal that has taken place and that just as vampires were legend in pre-infection times now he, an obsolete exemplar of old humanity, is legend in the eyes of the new race born of the infection. He glimpses a future society where infection is normal and he, Neville, is a murderous biological deviant. He is the only known immune human left in the world, the only survivor of the "old race". Previously Neville saw the destruction of the infected survivors as a right and a moral imperative to be pursued for his own and mankind's survival, but now he finally acknowledges defeat. When they spot him, he sees the fear, awe and horror in their eyes and he understands to them he is a scourge, just as they were a scourge to him at the beginning of the novel. ![]() Neville goes to his prison window and gets a glimpse of all the infected milling around in the yard waiting for his execution. SPOILERS - I can't get the spoiler-tag working
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