Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Eclipse - Chapter 27

NeedsI DIDN'T GET VERY FAR BEFORE DRIVING BECAME IMPOS sible.When I couldn't see anymore, I let my tires find the rough shoulder and rolled slowly to astop. I slumped over on the seat and allowed the weakness I'd fought in Jacob's room crushme. It was worse that I'd thought - the force of it took me by surprise. Yes, I had been rightto hide this from...

Eclipse - Chapter 26

EthicsTHE COUNTER IN ALICE'S BATHROOM WAS COVERED WITHa thousand differentproducts, all claiming to beautify a person's surface. Since everyone in this house was bothperfect and impermeable, I could only assume that she'd bought most of these things with mein mind. I read the labels numbly, struck by the waste.I was careful never to look in the long...

Eclipse - Chapter 25

MirrorI FORCED MY EYES -FROZEN WIDE OPEN WITH SHOCK- to move, so that I couldnot examine too closely the oval object wrapped in tendrils of shivering, fiery hair.Edward was in motion again. Swift and coolly businesslike, he dismembered the headlesscorpse.I could not go to him - I could not make my feet respond; they were bolted to the stonebeneath...