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  is arms around me and pressed his face
  against my hair.
  ”you're better at this than you give yourself credit for,” i noted.
  ”i have human instincts — they may be buried deep, but they're there.”
  we sat like that for another immeasurable moment; i wondered if he could
  be as unwilling to move as i was. but i could see the light was fading,
  the shadows inning to toud i sighed.
  ”you have to go.”
  ”i thought you 't read my mind.”
  ”it's getting clearer.” i could hear a smile in his voice.
  he took my shoulders ao his face.
  ”ething?” he asked, sudde flaring in his
  eyes.
  ”show me what?”
  ”i'll show you how i travel i.” he saw my expression. ”don't
  worry, you'll be very safe, and we'll get to your truck much faster.” his
  mouth twitto that ile so beautiful my heart nearly
  stopped.
  ”will you turn into a bat?” i asked warily.
  he laughed, louder than i'd ever heard. ”like i have one
  before!”
  ”right, i'm sure you get that all the time.”
  ”e on, little coward, y back.”
  i waited to see if he was kidding, but, appare. he
  smiled as he read my hesitation, and reay heart reacted;
  even though he 't hear my thoughts, my pulse always gave me away.
  he theo slio his back, with very little effort on
  my part, besides, when in place, g my legs and arms so tightly
  around him that it would al person. it was like g to a
  stone.
  ”i'm a bit heavier than ye backpack,” i warned.
  ”hah!” he snorted. i ost hear his eyes rolling. i'd never seen
  him in such high spirits before.
  he startled me, suddenly grabbing my hand, pressing my palm to his face,
  and inhaling deeply.
  ”easier all the time,” he muttered.
  and then he was running.
  if i'd ever feared death before i was nothing pared
  to how i felt now.
  he streaked through the dark, thiderbrush of the forest like a
  bullet, like a ghost. there was no souhat his feet
  touched the earth. his breathing never ever indiy
  effort. but the trees flew by at deadly speeds, always missing us by
  inches.
  i was too terrified to y eyes, though the cool forest air whipped
  against my fad bur as if i were stupidly stig my
  head out the windolane in flight. and, for the first time in
  my life, i felt the dizzy faiion siess.
  then it was over. we'd hiked hours this m to reach edward's meadow,
  and now, in a matter of minutes, we were back to the truck.
  ”exhilarating, isn't it?” his voice was high, excited.
  he stood motioio . i tried, but my
  muscles wouldn't respond. my arms aayed lo while
  my head spun unfortably.
  ”bella?” he asked, anxious now.
  ”i thio lie doed.
  ”oh, sorry.” he waited for me, but i still 't move.
  ”i think i need help,” i admitted.
  he laughed quietly, aly uranglehold on his neck.
  there was he irth of his hands. then he pulled me
  around to face him, g me in his arms like a small child. he held
  me for a moment, then carefully pla the springy ferns.
  ”how do you feel?” he asked.
  i 't be sure how i felt when my head inning so crazily.
  ”dizzy, i think.”
  ”put your head between your knees.”
  i tried that, and it helped a little. i breathed in and out slowly,
  keeping my head very still. i felt him sittihe moments
  passed, aually i found that i could raise my head. there was a
  h sound in my ears.
  ”i guess that wasn't the best idea,” he mused.
  i tried to be positive, but my voice was weak. ”no, it was very
  iing.”
  ”hah! you're as white as a ghost — no, you