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  nning to oe. no doubt his quid
  had already prehe that eluded me.
  his soft voiterrupted my thoughts. ”he a lo's
  usually the reasohe choice. i was the first in carlisle's
  family, though he fouer. she fell from a cliff. they
  brht to the hospital mue, though, somehow, her heart
  was still beating.”
  ”so you must be dyio bee…” we he word, and i
  't frame it now.
  ”no, that's just carlisle. he would to someone who had
  another choice.” the respe his voice rofound whenever he spoke
  of his father figure. ”it is easier he says, though,” he ued, ”if
  the blood is weak.” he looked at the now-dark road, and i could feel the
  subjeg again.
  ”a and rosalie?”
  ”carlisle brought rosalie to our family . i didill much
  later that he ing she would be to me what esme was to him — he was
  careful with his thoughts around me.” he rolled his eyes. ”but she was
  ha was oer that she found
  emmett. she was hunting — we alachia at the time — and found a
  bear about to finish him off. she carried him back to carlisle, more than
  a hundred miles, afraid she wouldo do it herself. i'm only
  beginning to guess how difficult that journey was for her.” he threw a
  pointed glan my dired raised our hands, still folded
  together, to brush my cheek with the back of his hand.
  ”but she made it,” i enced, looking away from the uy
  of his eyes.
  ”yes,” he murmured. ”she saw something i made her strong
  enough. and they've beeher ever sihey live
  separately from us, as a married couple. but the youend to
  be, the loay in any given plaed perfect, so
  we all enrolled in high school.” he laughed. ”i suppose we'll have to go
  t in a few years, again.”
  ”alid jasper?”
  ”alid jasper are two very rare creatures. they both developed a
  ce, as we refer to it, with no outside guidance. jasper belonged
  to another… family, a very different kind of family. he became depressed,
  and he wandered on his own. ali. like me, she has
  gifts above ahe norm for our kind.”
  ”really?” i ied, fasated. ”but you said you were the only one
  who could hear people's thoughts.”
  ”that's true. she khihings — things that might
  happen, things that are ing. but it's very subjective. the future
  isohings ge.”
  his jaw set whehat, aed to my fad away so
  quickly that i wasn't sure if i only imagi.
  ”what kinds of things does she see?”
  ”she saer a he was looking for her before he k
  himself. she saw carlisle and our family, aogether to find
  us. she's most seo non-humans. she always sees, for example,
  when anroup of our kind is ing near. and ahey may
  pose.”
  ”are there a lot of… your kind?” i rised. how many of them could
  walk amoed?
  ”no, not many. but most wole in any ohose like
  us, who've given up hunting you people” — a sly glan my dire —
  ” live together with humans fth of time. we've only found
  oher family like ours, in a small village in alaska. we lived
  together for a time, but there were so many of us that we became too
  hose of us who live… differeo baher.”
  ”ahers?”
  ”nomads, for the most part. we've all lived that way at times. it gets
  tedious, like a we run across the others now and then,
  because most of us prefer the north.”
  ”why is that?”
  we were parked in front of my house now, aurhe truck.
  it was very quiet and dark; there was no moon. the pht was off so
  i kher wasn't home yet.
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