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Music:
Here I am – Bryan Adams
Welcome to wherever you are – Bon Jovi
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Chapter 2: Edward – Lonely predator
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For what I saw in her mind, that last sentence was an understatement! How this girl survived without any help, without the Volturi finding out about her, was a mystery to me. But I let her tell her story, of which she didn't show me everything, she had great control over her thoughts and had no problem blocking me, if she wanted. That bugged me a bit.
Timmain started at the very beginning. "I was born 23 years ago in Australia, my father was a tall Aboriginal man, my mother was part Japanese, part Chinese, part English." We lived three hours from Sydney on a small farm."
"My father worked as a guide, a tracker for anyone who hired him, he didn't like to stay in one place to long, but he stayed with me and my mother until my 6th birthday." By then he taught me enough about nature for me to be able to survive a day on my own, if needed." After that he showed up a few times a year to bring us money and celebrate our birthdays." But over the years he came around less and less, I haven't seen him since I became fifteen."
"My mother was a very spiritual woman, into different Asian techniques that had to do with energy." As soon as I could walk and talk, she started teaching me how to meditate and centre myself." - This helped me a lot after I was bitten. – "Later, when I was about ten, she started with Tai Chi and different forms of healing therapy."
"These techniques teach you how to use your own energy and that of others, to either defend yourself or help someone." I'm a very energetic person and found out I was a natural at polarity-massage." I could really focus myself, intensify my actions with my own energy, which is called 'quantum touch'." It was easy for me to feel blockages in someone's energy-flow and help to remove them." I loved to help sick people heal themselves."
"When my father disappeared, my mother divorced him and moved us to China, near some relatives." At first I was upset, but the city we lived in had a big park and was close to some beautiful mountains with lots of new wildlife for me to discover." I was grateful my father showed me everything, I was interested in all life and was going to study biology." But I was most interested in big predators, like tigers and wolves."
"Then, when I was seventeen, my mother got into a terrible accident and went into a coma." I felt so lost at first, cried a lot at her bedside, stayed with her for days." The doctors told me there was little hope she would wake up and even if she did, she might not remember everything about her life."
"I was alone now and started to take care of myself, I went to school during the day and got a job at a community-centre in the evenings, teaching Tai Chi to kids."
"One evening, when I was just eighteen, I was walking home from a visit to my mother and cut through the park to watch some of the night-time animals come out." The weather had been good this fall." Something flashed by me, I didn't see anything, but smelled something real sweet, and felt a tremendous pain in my upper right arm."
"The pain started to spread, it felt like I was on fire." I didn't know what bit me and if it was still there, I hid and was unable to move because of the pain."
"I think I shut myself down, mentally, because I when I woke up, it was daytime and I'd been out for three days." All my senses were heightened and people passing by suddenly seemed appetizing." But it was wrong, I wasn't a killer, I focused on controlling myself and noticed I didn't need to breathe." That made it easier to resist this thirst I was feeling."
"I tried meditating without breathing, it was hard, but it helped me remember who I was and hold on to important memories." At nightfall I knew I had to get away from humans, for whatever I was, I wasn't one of them anymore."
"I fled into the mountains as far as I could and interrupted a big, angry bear who was just about to eat." He attacked me and I killed him, then feeding off him and his prey made me feel better." So, I learned quickly I didn't have to kill people to survive and I felt like the predators I always had admired, like the strongest one."
"For me, that meant I had to act like one and only hunt real prey animals, like deer, kill off the weaker ones to keep a herd healthy." I lived in the mountains alone, only making contact with people when I needed new clothes, which I traded for animal-skins." I avoided any scents that smelled like the one in the park, they meant danger to me."
She wanted to go on, but Carlisle interrupted. We had listened to her with open mouths. "Wait, he said, you mean to say you had no help from anyone." What about your creator?" Timmain frowned; "I don't know who he or she was, this… person – she squeezed out the word – didn't stick around to tell me anything." Carlisle was surprised, like all of us. This kind of neglect was a crime.
"And you've never killed a human?" he continued to ask. "No, she said, I've never fed on human blood." - There was more to that answer, I knew it right away, but whatever it was, she didn't think of it. But I wondered; did she kill a human?
Jasper could sense there was something painful she was suppressing. - Carlisle ignored this, only concluding: "And you've been vampire for only five years?" Except for Bella, all of us had struggled with our lifestyle and we had each other for support. This girl had managed on her own and she was being honest, not a lie passed her lips. But she did edit things.
Timmain nodded as a response to Carlisle's question and continued her story.
"After a year I had travelled north into Russia, I had hunted many different kinds of prey." I was camping out near a big lake, which was connected to the sea." I had noticed a large colony of seals there and found out they were very nutritious and fun to hunt." One day, after a swim, I was surprised by a sweet scent that put me on alert right away." My first, up close encounter with someone like me."
"He was cautious, indicating he wasn't going to hurt me and keeping his distance." He said his name was Nick and seemed surprised to see one of our kind out there." I felt I could trust him, his eyes were orange and he wasn't what you call a newborn, I could tell and so he was trying to stay away from human blood."
"He started to ask me questions and he explained the whole vampire-deal to me." That was a lot to process." Then he asked me for tips, to help him with this new lifestyle, he didn't like living isolated." I pointed out the seals and coached him on his first hunt." He thanked me and said this would help him a lot." After that we went our separate ways and I haven't seen him since." - She paused.-
And Bella couldn't hold back anymore: "You didn't know you were a vampire?" Timmain looked at her and answered calmly: "No, they were just a myth, existed in stories, how was I to know?" "But didn't it ever cross your mind?" my love continued surprised. Our visitor replied: "I wasn't into that sort of stories and many of my, our, physical characteristics are found in nature. "Of course, ours, are amplified."
Then there was a moment of silence and nobody asked new questions. So Timmain continued: "Now the part with the answers to Renesmee's question."
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Timmain thought she had something of a reptile, with the hard, tough skin and the venom. Also, she thought of big cats. She was fast like a cheetah and had her heightened senses.
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