Summary: Over a century and half after the Cullen's initial visit to Forks, they return to the small town in hopes of humane normalcy after years of seclusion in the Canadian wilderness. Edward Cullen, who has spent over a century to his lonesome, is set on a strayed path upon meeting Brina Di'Rossi, a redolently minded girl who only caught his attention. Alice's visions only tell of half the story, and Edward is left to decide if loving a human girl is worth a lifetime of fighting.
Prologue
"I see you everywhere,
in the stars, in the river;
to me you're everything that exists;
the reality of everything."
Virginia Woolf, "Night and Day"
It was an unexplainable feeling, love. That without it, I had felt the darkest I had in my entire existence. Though I tried to cling onto its flame for several months, even now I could see the burn scars along my hands. She was long gone. My life no longer had purpose. The sun set on my existence once more, and I couldn't fathom anything beyond what I knew about the darkness. I had forgotten its bleakness, the depression that settled into my chest, everything became surreal.
She had been my sun; granting me the warmth I needed. The nutrients of her love being all I had ever needed; but now I lived without it. There was no proof she existed to me other than my memory. My skin was untouched, untanned and without the speckle of freckles that had stained over her cheeks. My heart was never beating to begin with - so to lose her heartbeat was only a reflection of the monster I knew I was for involving her in the first place.
Opalescent eyes were engraved to my view, and though she was no longer here, I would never forget her.
I wanted this suffering to be over.
To be without her, was an existence that was more meaningless than the one I had left behind.