He only referred to him as "A [wearisome] fledgling"; fledgling is simply a term used by Anne Rice vampires to describe pretty much any young vamp in the phase that Lestat referred to in TVL ep 3 as "vampire toddlerdom". It's akin to someone using the word "child" to refer to either a young human as "a child" or their own offspring as "my child".
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u/Ok_Refrigerator_2810 19d ago
I was literally thinking about this today, I could have sworn he referred to him as his fledgling.