Date: 10th November

Character: Esme Cullen (She hasn't had one, either.)

Stimulus Word: Aesthetics.

Esme Cullen let her mind wander as she delivered the lecture to the group of design students before her. It wasn't, after all, something she had to think about.

She had been surprised—shocked, even—when she had been asked to give a lecture at the University of Alaska, as a guest speaker. Interior design—and the aesthetics involved—was her field of expertise, though, so she had agreed.

She allowed her mind to wander, as it often did when she was not in the company of her eldest son, to Bella Swan.

So she was shocked when she realised that the room full of students sat, waiting expectantly. She realised that she had been asked a question.

"I'm sorry?"

"I was wondering about the aesthetics involved in other projects that you yourself had undertaken."

"Oh!" Esme's mind flickered to those designs—the beautiful designs that she had planned for Bella's room in the Cullen house, and she suddenly found that she could not speak.