I woke up inside a hollow log and the first thing I noticed was that my coat had been removed. It was cold in here. As I slowly came to, I noticed that the pack had moved away from me, but not far enough to where I couldn't hear them. I could hear the fight between the pack and Victoria's newborn army. The yelps and screams were stuff for nightmares.

I cupped my hands over my ears as hard as I could to block out the sound, but not before I heard, "Don't do that."

I turned around and saw Seth crouching at the far end of the log looking at me with the same look Jacob had used on me earlier when he was in wolf form.

"What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same question," said Seth with a strong hint of worry in his voice. "Jake doesn't know why you're here. We were planning to finally head off Victoria when you showed up. It makes things a lot harder when she knows you're so close."

"I- Jake left a message on my nightstand."

"You know we hear all of each other's thoughts no matter what right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, don't you think it's a bit odd that none of us picked up on a nightstand letter?"

"Maybe he just wasn't thinking about it," I knew my argument was pathetic.

"Right, and maybe next time I'll turn into a Chihuahua instead of a wolf. It's easy to assume that when he saw you he would try to think about exactly what brought you here, and that's exactly what he did; no note ever crossed his mind."

"So how did it get there?"

"I can only guess, but it must've been planted to lure you here, so Victoria-" Seth stopped. He must've seen the look on my face when he said the word lure.

I tried to keep calm, "Why would a vampire plant a message without killing me?"

"Well, either they were very well fed, or wanted to wait for the fun."

"Okay, stop. I've heard enough."

"I'm only here to keep watch, and make sure you have someone to talk to when you wake up. You know, too young to fight, blah blah blah."

"Yeah," I snickered a little too hard at his blasé towards the battle.

"What did the message say?" asked Seth

"It said: I've gone back to the pack to further refine our plans. Meet up with me on La Push beach this afternoon?"

"It's funny, you know? We were planning to ambush her. Looks like somebody had to blab while in human form."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, as you already know, we can only communicate with our thoughts while in wolf form. This gives us a huge advantage: Victoria can't hear us. But if one of us were to speak about the plans while in human form, well, you know vampire hearing; they can hear for miles."

"I wonder who it was."

"None of our pack is out to get us; broken loyalty is dealt with very severely, so it must've been carelessness," Seth clenched his teeth briefly.

"I wonder who was stupid enough to do that."

"Probably Paul. You know how carried away he gets when it's time to fight. He gets so pumped at times."

"Maybe. Hey, what did you do with my coat?"

"We used it to lead the vampires off track. I carried you here, they won't be able to smell you at all."

"Good."

"Quiet. Do you hear that?"

"Um, no."

"I'm gonna go wolf. Something's going down." And with that, I was all alone with my thoughts.

The first thing to haunt me was why Seth needed to turn wolf if he wasn't even allowed to fight. Something must be wrong. And second was why I was here. Some vampire planted a fake letter and led me here. What were they expecting? That I'd show up before the fight was scheduled to start?

I moved like lightning out of the log and retched. That thought hadn't occurred to me before. If I'd shown up even a few minutes earlier, I'd be dead and have already been drained of my life force of blood.

I nearly heaved again when I realized that, in order to plant a letter that close to my bed, they had to be that close to me, as well.

This was going all kinds of wrong. And I still don't know why Jacob left before I woke, but before I could ponder that, Seth returned as a human and delivered the news.