"Since when do we scout for perspective vampires?"
"You mean since when do you two scout for perspective vampires? Now."
Alec thought it best to stop arguing and took a step back from Aro. The head of the Volturi saw no need to explain himself to the boy, and proceeded to hand his twin sister, Jane, a slip of paper with a name and an address. "Lark Rhine is anticipated to have a very interesting power. However, I don't fully trust some of our brethren of late...so off you go!"
Once out of Aro's presence, Jane began to berate her brother. "You shouldn't question him...he always has a reason. Besides you know he's been on edge ever since the incidents with Bella and Edward."
"Yes, dear sister, but you think having had their daughter murdered would've taken care of his apprehensions."
"You know very well that not everyone agrees with what he ordered. After all, you were one of them," she ended in a bitter, disapproving tone.
Alec stared blankly ahead, not even acknowledging that she had spoken.
"Blocking your emotions and true thoughts was a new level of power for you that couldn't have come at a better time then," Jane responded to his silence.
"Regardless of how anyone feels - it happened; and if Alice sees us coming into the country...well, this may not end well."
Without skipping a beat Jane reminded Alec, "That's why Aro had Felix kidnap the Mutt. Alice can't see past them according to what Aro has heard; and the part of the country we're going in is still too far for his pack to hear his thoughts. You're getting to be quite the worrier in your old age brother."
Alec left his sister to get their travel companion. 'It truly is a miracle we've kept him this long,' Alec mused.
As he approached the Native American boy, he was met with a low growl. "Phasing won't help you...you know what will happen if you don't cooperate."
The boy whimpered and obediently followed Alec from his cell and out into the night.