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Chapter 11: Explanations

I wasn't sure exactly how to explain myself, it's easier to just state fact then to try and convince someone that what you say is true. But Edward deserved the truth so I tried my best.

"Goras are…a sort of species. We live secluded from humans, though there is a designated group who will go to cities and bring things back for us." I remember always being exited whenever they brought CDs home with them. "Meleths are…I guess like our mates." I thought for a second. "Did you feel anything the first time you saw me?"

Edward sat there absorbing my information, but now he was concentrating.

"Yes," he hesitanted. "As a vampire I know the pain of thirst but this pain was completely different. It only lasted a second then, I don't know, something soothed it away. I can't explain it." He looked at me with confused eyes. It must have been so hard for him to go through all this without knowing what was going on.

"That was the Nuino ritual," I tried to explain to him. " 'The joining of our souls' the eldest told us when we were young." Edward looked at me in shock, almost disbelief.

"The joining of our souls?" he asked skeptically.

I nodded.

He thought for a second and I was patience enough to not interrupt his contemplation.

"But how do you know about vampires? You mention something about servants?"

I took a deep breathe. I wasn't sure how he was going to react to this information. "Our leader hates vampires," I started. "She has been ruling for thousands of years and one of her first deeds was capturing a bunch of vampires and forcing them to be servants.. And just to piss off the vampires she captured werewolves too, to keep as guards."

Edward looked at me for a moment. "That makes no sense. Vampires are extremely strong, how could you control them?" His voice sounded a bit angry.

"Goras have two forms, like werewolves. We have this form," I waved a hand to myself, "and another form. In that form we are extremely powerful, it was quite easy to control the vampires. Plus the werewolves helped." I shrugged at the last part.

Edward was contemplating again. By his expression I could tell his was trying to control his anger. No one liked to know that some of your species were being used as slaves. Something must have came to his mind because he stared at me intensely.

"Why did you and your family leave?"

For some reason the question hurt. It was like asking why did I even come into his life. I pushed down my hurt and answered him.

"We were exiled," I said in a small voice.

"Why?" True curiosity was there now.

I thought for a second. I'd have to tell him other things before I answered the question directly. "Goras can live a long time, because it is very uncommon for us to find our meleth when we first turn into an adult -when we turn sixteen." Edward seemed confused about how I was starting my explanation but let me continue.

"Charlie found Renee, my mother, when he was around three hundred, and she was close to two hundred. They both thought that using vampires as servants were wrong, so they decided to do something about it." I took a deep breathe before continuing.

"They managed to set some free. The elders and leaders didn't know how it happened so they captured more vampires, but my parents started to let them free too. After a few years of this Renee was caught." I stopped to swallow my tears. "She was sentenced to death." Before Edward could try and comfort me I continued.

"Charlie stopped for awhile. The pain of losing half his soul nearly killed him. I was twelve." I can still remember the haunted look that was always on Charlie's face, how my brothers were the one who practically raised me for the next few years.

"After awhile Charlie snapped out of it with a vengeance. He started setting vampires free again. Our community was vast so he had to be very cautious. Eventually me and my brothers started helping him." I stared off into space, no longer in the meadow, but in the past, remembering all those nights of breaking and entering. "The house holds didn't allow the vampires to stay in the house because they didn't trust them. They practically lived in kennels, so it was easy to locate them all. Eventually we were caught."

As I stopped to breathe Edward asked another question. "Why were you exiled and your mother killed?" his voice was soft and soothed me.

"Because the bunch of vampires that my mom was setting free escaped when she was caught, while the ones we were setting free got recaptured."

Edward considered this before looking at me. "How did the vampires eat?"

"They were allowed twice a week to go hunting. They were warned that if they tried to escape they would be destroyed."

"Goras don't sound that peaceful," Edward stated with a humorless laugh.

"To each other they are." I admitted. "To other creatures, not so much."

"How old is your father?" A deep wanting shown in his eyes.

"He's almost seven hundred." Feeling that I had to explain made me continue. "After the Nuino ritual Goras become ageless. Unless there meleths are killed, then the life starts to leave them." I tried to say this with little emotion. I could tell that Charlie had a few more decades before his time.

Edward looked at me in shock. "You aren't going to age?"

"No." Before I knew it I was in his arms and he was laughing with relief.

"What is it." I found myself laughing with him.

"Nothing, it's just." He stared at me with joyful eyes. "I was considering the possibility of having to change you to be with you, but know I don't have to worry about that." He pulled me tightly in his embrace and felt at home, just rapping my arms around him.

"I'm curious," I started. Edward pulled away and looked me in the eye waiting for me question. "I know that some vampires have a sort of power. I was wondering if you or any of your coven have any?" It was something I had been wondering for awhile.

"Alice can she the future," he stated with no hesitation. "Jasper can feel and control others emotions. And I can read minds, with an exception."

I was in such shock that I missed the last part. He could read minds? Did he know what I've been thinking this whole time? But then my brain caught the last bit.

"Exceptions?" I asked in a small voice, completely petrified that he knew what I was thinking.

"You," he stated while tapping my nose.

I blinked a few times, confused. "Me?"

He nodded. "I can't read your mind."

I thought about this for a second until something clicked. "That's why you always looked so frustrated."

He gave a small smile. "I could feel a pull towards you so I desperately wished to know what you were thinking." He rolled his eyes. "Of course then I started trying to fight that pull."

I looked down at my lap. "Me too. It was very difficult."

Edward lifted my chin so I was staring at him. "It was indeed very difficult to stay away from you." His eyes were smoldering me and I found my heart racing.

"Is that why you come into my room at night?" I blurted out.

Edward looked at me in shock. "How did you -"

I smiled at him. "I could recognize your sent any where." It was so true.

He stared at me for a while, brushing his hand along me cheek and into me hair, playing with a strand with his fingers. I was content to sit here all day.

"Yes, that is why," he whispered. He continued playing with my hair, bringing it to his face and breathing in my sent while I watched him. I could never get bored of watching him.

He gave me a mischievous smile that made my heart stop.

"You said something about having two forms?"

A lot of this stuff is a bit confusing so if you need anything clarified ask and I'll answer as best I can next chapter. Sorry for speling mistakes but I rushed to get this chapter done. Please review :)