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  te the fear that numbed my brain, i was
  aware of rosalie's eyes ohey were expressio something
  about the way she held her mouth made me think she was angry.
  edaid o the game at all, eyes and mind ranging the
  forest.
  ”i'm sorry, bella,” he muttered fiercely. ”it id, irresponsible,
  to expose you like this. i'm so sorry.”
  i heard his breath stop, and his eyes zeroed in ht field. he took a
  half step, angliwee was ing.
  carlisle, emmett, aurhe same dire, hearing
  sounds of passage much too faint for my ears.
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  18. the hunt
  they emerged ohe fe, rangiers
  apart. the first male into the g fell back immediately, allowing
  the other male to take the fr himself arouall,
  dark-haired man i clearly displayed who led the pack. the
  third was a woman; from this distance, all i could see of her was that
  her hair was a startling shade of red.
  they ks before they ued cautiously toward edward's
  family, exhibitiural respect of a troop of predators as it
  enters a larger, unfamiliar group of its own kind.
  as they approached, i could see how differehe s.
  their walk was catlike, a gait that seemed tly on the edge of
  shifting into a crouch. they dressed in the ear of backpackers:
  jeans and casual button-down shirts iherproof fabrics. the
  clothes were frayed, though, with wear, and they were barefoot. both men
  had cropped hair, but the woman's brilliant e hair was filled with
  leaves and debris from the woods.
  their sharp eyes carefully took in the more polished, urbaance of
  carlisle, who, fla aepped guardedly forward to
  meet them. without any seeming uni betweehey each
  straighteo a more casual, ereg.
  the man in frohe most beautiful, his skioned
  beypical pallor, his hair a glossy black. he was of a medium
  build, hard-muscled, of course, but o emmett's brawn. he
  smiled an easy smile, exposing a flash of gleamih.
  the ilder, her eyes shiftiween the men fag
  her, and the l arouic hair quivering in the
  slight breeze. her posture was distihe seale hovered
  unobtrusively behier than the leader, his light brown hair
  and regular features both . his eyes, though pletely still,
  somehow seemed the most vigilant.
  their eyes were different, too. not the gold or black i had e to
  expect, but a deep burgundy color that was disturbing and sinister.
  the dark-haired man, still smilioward carlisle.
  ”we thought we heard a game,” he said in a relaxed voice with the
  slightest of fres. ”i'm laureoria and james.”
  he gestured to the vampires beside him.
  ”i'm carlisle. this is my family, emmett and jasper, rosalie, esme and
  alice, edward and bella.” he poi in groups, deliberately not
  g attention to individuals. i felt a sho he said my name.
  ”do you have room for a few more players?” laurent asked sociably.
  carlisle matched laurent's frieually, we were just
  finishing up. but we'd ly be iher time. are you
  planning to stay in the area f?”
  ”we're headed north, in fact, but we were curious to see who was in the
  neighborhood. we haven't run into any pany in a long time.”
  ”nion is usually empty except for us and the oal
  visitor, like yourselves.”
  the temosphere had slowly subsided into a versation; i
  guessed that jasper was using his peculiar gift to trol the situation.
  ”what's y range?” laurent casually inquired.
  carlisle igiohe inquiry. ”the e
  here, up and dow ranges on o. erma
  residehere's a settlement like ours up near
  denali.&