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me now. Seeing him and losing him again&
I fought back against the pain. This was the price I had to pay to save his life. I would pay it.
They showed a movie, and my neighbor got headphones. Sometimes I watched the figures moving
across the little screen, but I couldn't even tell if the movie was supposed to be a romance or a horror
film.
After an eternity, the plane began to descend towardNew York City .Alice remained in her trance. I
dithered, reaching out to touch her, only to pull my hand back again. This happened a dozen times before
the plane touched town with a jarring impact.
"Alice," I finally said. "Alice, we have to go."
I touched her arm.
Her eyes came open very slowly. She shook her head from side to side for a moment.
"Anything new?" I asked in a low voice, conscious of the man listening on the other side of me.
"Not exactly," she breathed in a voice I could barely catch. "He's getting closer. He's deciding how he's
going to ask."
We had to run for our connection, but that was good better than having to wait. As soon as the plane
was in the air,Alice closed her eyes and slid back into the same stupor as before. I waited as patiently as
I could. When it was dark again, I opened the window to stare out into the flat black that was no better
than the window shade.
I was grateful that I'd had so many months' practice with controlling my thoughts. Instead of dwelling on
the terrifying possibilities that, no matter whatAlice said, I did not intend to survive, I concentrated on
lesser problems. Like, what I was going to say to Charlie if I got back:' That was a thorny enough
problem to occupy several hours. And Jacob? He'd promised to wait for me, but did that promise still
apply? Would I end up home alone in Forks, with no one at all? Maybe I didn'twant to survive, no
matter what happened.
It felt like seconds later whenAlice shook my shoulder I hadn't realized I'd fallen asleep.
"Bella," she hissed, her voice a little too loud in the darkened cabin full of sleeping humans.
I wasn't disoriented I hadn't been out long enough for that.
"What's wrong?"
Alice's eyes gleamed in the dim light of a reading lamp in the row behind us.
"It's not wrong." She smiled fiercely. "It's right. They're deliberating, but they've decided to tell him no."
"The Volturi?" I muttered, groggy.
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"Of course, Bella, keep up. I can see what they're going to say."
"Tell me."
An attendant tiptoed down the aisle to us. "Can I get you ladies a pillow?" His hushed whisper was a
rebuke to our comparatively loud conversation.
"No, thank you."Alice beamed at up at him, her smile shockingly lovely. The attendant's expression was
dazed as he turned and stumbled his way back.
"Tell me," I breathed almost silently.
She whispered into my ear. "They're interested in him they think his talent could be uselul. They're
going to offer him a place with them."
"What will he say?"
"I can't see that yet, but I'll bet it's colorful." She grinned again. "This is the first good news the first
break. They're intrigued; they truly don't want to destroy him 'wasteful,' that's the word Aro will
use and that may be enough to force him to get creative. The longer he spends on his plans, the better
for us."
It wasn't enough to make me hopeful, to make me feel the relief she obviously felt. There were still so
many ways that we could be too late. And if I didn't get through the walls into the Volturi city, I wouldn't
be able to stopAlice from dragging me back home.
"Alice?"
"What?"
"I'm confused. How are you seeing this so clearly? And then other times, you see things far
away things that don't happen?"
Her eyes tightened. I wondered if she guessed what I was thinking of.
"It's clear because it's immediate and close, and I'm really concentrating. The faraway things that come
on their own those are just glimpses, faint maybes. Plus, I see my kind more easily than yours. Edward
is even easier because I'm so attuned to him."
"You see me sometimes," I reminded her.
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