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Taking a step toward her darkness fell around me. Again I couldn't move, once again I was frozen in place, only this time there was no breaking free, no escape. Every one of my senses failed me, only to be then wracked with the most excruciating pain I had ever felt in my human and immortal existence. If I thought that the three days I spent burning as the venom raced and laid waste to me, changing me into the monster I was now, was painful, it seemed like a blessing compared to this.

I couldn't fight it, it simply pulsed through me, making my knees buckle out from under me. I knew deep down there was only one explanation for this. Alec and Jane of the Volturi.