It's dark. Why is it so dark? Can't they even give me a stupid light in this place? And I could hear voices. The real kind, standing outside my door, not the kind that most of the people here could hear.
A female voice was talking: "Dr. Murphy, I'm sorry, but I just got this message from Dr. Cullen. He's gone to help the...victims." She said it like they'd deserved to get a train in their living rooms.
Somebody sighed. "Very well then. Thank you."
My door rattled, then opened. Dr. Murphy stepped through. "Hello, Alice," he said. "Unfortunately, Carlisle isn't going to be available... That's a shame. You'd have liked him."
"I'm still waiting for an explanation about what you meant, earlier," I said. "And why are your eyes a different color, now? Eyes don't just change from red to blue. Hell, they're not even usually red in the first place."
He sighed again. "I had rather hoped you hadn't noticed that, in the dark. No matter... I said I would tell you... I had rather planned to wait until afterward, but I don't think Aro will care much, as long as it happens."
"Okay," I interrupted angrily, "who is Aro, who are you, what the hell is going on here?"
"Calm down," he laughed. "I am, as I've said, Dr. Nathan Murphy. I am also, as I've not said... a vampire."