Fearful understanding made her already-drawn face more gaunt.

I scrambled, trying to recover. Her reactions were never what I expected.

"It's alright, I'm... glad you found someone else. Someone who can make you happy."

"But I'm not. Happy, I mean. And he's not my boyfriend." Her words were a rush.

And I thought Jacob Black was supposed to be a dog, the way I immediately perked up.

She had literally thrown me a bone.

Quickly I realized it was barren of marrow, no substance to satiate.

Those obsidian futures were clearly my own doing, then.