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I wished that I could forget it, but they were our version of Royalty, our governors, the ones who set and enforced the laws regarding our kind. Carlisle had lived with them for a few decades. He told us about them, how they issued punishment where they saw fit. They were feared and revered in equal measure. I had never seen them before in person only in Carlisle's thoughts when he recalled his memories of them. Now they were here, and I was the focus of their attention, and displeasure.
Glancing at Alice I saw that she was now standing at Jane's side. The closeness of my sister to these creatures scared me, she was obviously on their side in whatever I was deemed to have done wrong in their eyes, but who knew what I had done to deserve this treatment.