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Isis raised her eyebrows and widened her grin. I was nervous and a little bit embarrassed, which was enough to make me start to blush. I looked down at my hands, planted firmly on the table. I jerked my head back up when I heard Isis start to speak.
"I am sorry," she said, but her grin was still firmly in place, "I should have asked before I jumped to conclusions. All I knew was that all of you were vampires and Bella was a human. I thought she didn't know, so I wasn't very fond of any of you. But now that I know that you know…" here she trailed off, and her grin grew even WIDER. I hadn't even thought that was possible.
"I can't believe this," she exclaimed happily, "Human and Meriah Vampire alike, living in harmony-"
Edward interrupted her. "Excuse me Isis, but I believe you neglected to answer a few of our questions. One: what are you? I KNOW I speak for us all, except for maybe Bella, when I say that I am sure you are not human. Two: How do you know of what we are? We have lived for generations without anyone," here I cleared my throat and Edward smiled sheepishly at me, "Well, ALMOST anyone finding out about what we are. Then you walk right up to us and claim to know. How? And Three: what do you mean by Meriah Vampires?"
Jasper nodded, and Alice spoke up. "Also, why haven't I had any visions of you? I'm not sure if you figured it out yet, but Edward can read people's minds, well except Bella's, and I can see visions of the future. Jasper here can sense and control a person's emotions. But Edward can only hear you sometimes, and I haven't seen anything about you. Why is that?"
Isis turned to me and sighed. "I guess it's time for a Q and A," she smiled at me, "I always did hate explaining myself."
Then her smile faded and she sat up on the bench. Her green eyes blazed like emeralds, and her black hair seemed to stir of it's own accord. Her voice sizzled through the air like lightning and she seemed to grow in size before my very eyes. The fizzing feeling returned and all my hair stood on end. Isis, was not Isis. She was someone else.
"I will answer you're questions in order," she said, in a voice not entirely her own, yet more fitting than ever. "I am a witch, a goddess, and enchantress, a sorceress, a siren. I am everything and nothing. I am Isis, from which sprung Osiris and Horus, I am the cult of magic and magick. I am the dirt beneath your feet, and the clouds above your head. At this point in time, I have been incarnated as a sixteen year old girl of the Frey dynasty. That is all."
"I can sense the true form of every living being on this earth. And every non-living being as well. It is quite an interesting thing when I myself am in my true form, as I am now, but when I am in my currently incarnated form, it is a heavy burden to bear. This is how I could tell that you, the Cullen family, were Meriah Vampires."
"As to Meriah, it is a race, a species, a state of being. Did you think there was only one type of vampire? There are darkangels, vampyres, vampires, demons, creatures of the night, blood oaths, infections, and strange, dark magicks. Do not presume that you are the only ones in your situation. There have been many different types of undead, blood drinking creatures throughout history. Just because you have not interacted with any, do not presume you are the only ones. You are the Meriah Vampires. I will not give you a list of characterizing features, if that is what you are wondering Jasper. That is for me to know, and you to learn."
"Alice, Edward, and Jasper as well. Your powers work on me only when I wish them to. Isis, the girl, is not strong enough to block you, but my will creates paths in her consciousness. She is aware of all of this, and agreed to it all before she left Summerland. Bella, do not think I have forgotten you. You are not immune to my powers as you are most of those of the Meriah race. I can affect you however I please. However, I choose not to. I provide free will, as compared to some people's versions of the Ineffable Plan."
The Cullen's mouths, and mine, were open so wide, I was sure they were dragging on the ground. Now that the original Isis had finished her speech, the form moving around the currently incarnated Isis disappeared, leaving a grinning Isis Frey in her divine place. She cocked an eyebrow.
"Well," I breathed, "That was weird."