Prologue
Life, hmmm….that is one interesting word. What does it mean exactly, to continue to walk the earth or have a heartbeat? To some it means one thing, to others another. To me it means pain and agony to have to live. My heart may beat but it feels empty, like a bottomless pit. It has felt that way much too long, which is why I am going to do this. Why I spent all of my money on a one way ticket to Italy. Why I was going to Voltura to tell the rulers of their kind what I know. I was going to the castle like a visitor and start shouting such things of knowledge, enough to confuse the humans and more than enough to alert the….vampires. I am Isabella Swan and this is my mission….death. It is the one thing I seek since his departure. He left me alone and hurt; I don't think that I could ever feel whole again after the treachery he committed. I haven't been able to really breathe since he left me, alone and in a comatose state.
