We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee." I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path. "Not you too," I complained. "Sorry, love. I hear it in their thoughts all the time, you know. It's rubbing off on me. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn't giving in.

Fall down again, Bella?' No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.

The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

You never know how much time you'll have.

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.