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As I sprinted away from her in the middle of the forest my mind was racing. I could hear my family's thoughts. Fear, concern, disappointment all played out in my mind, causing me to stop once I was far enough away from her. Not for the first time in my existence did I wish that I didn't have this 'gift' as it was laughably called.
To me, it felt more like a curse to be able to read the minds of those around me. No thought was safe although had learned to control it. I was a damned being, forced to walk the earth for eternity unless of course a rogue vampire chose to end my life, or unless it came at the hands of our ruling family, The Volturi. They were the only ones that I feared.