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Chapter 22 Promised
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Thinking of Renesmee brought her to that center-stage place in my strange, new, and roomy butdistractible mind. So many questions.
"Tell me about her," i insisted as he took my hand. Being linked barely slowed us.
"She's like nothing else in the world," he told me, and the sound of an almost religious devotion was thereagain in his voice.
I felt a sharp pang1 of jealousy2 over this stranger. He knew her and I did not. It wasn't fair.
"How much is she like you? How much like me? Or like I was, anyway.""It seems a fairly even divide.""She was warm-blooded," I remembered.
"Yes. She has a heartbeat, though it runs a little bit faster than a human's. Her temperature is a little bithotter than usual, too. She sleeps.""Really?""Quite well for a newborn. The only parents in the world who don't need sleep, and our child alreadysleeps through the night." He chuckled4.
I liked the way he said our child. The words made her more real.
"She has exactly your color eyes—so that didn't get lost, after all." He smiled at me. "They're sobeautiful.""And the vampire5 parts?" I asked.
"Her skin seems about as impenetrable as ours. Not that anyone would dream of testing that."I blinked at him, a little shocked.
"Of course no one would," he assured me again. "Her diet... well, she prefers to drink blood. Carlislecontinues to try to persuade her to drink some baby formula, too, but she doesn't have much patiencewith it. Can't say that Iblame her—nasty-smelling stuff, even for human food."I gaped6 openly at him now. He made it sound like they were having conversations. "Persuade her?""She's intelligent, shockingly so, and progressing at an immense pace. Though she doesn't speak—yet—she communicates quite effectively.""Doesn't. Speak. Yet"He slowed our pace further, letting me absorb this.
"What do you mean, she communicates effectively?" I demanded.
"I think it will be easier for you to... see for yourself. It's rather difficult to describe."I considered that. I knew there was a lot that I needed to see for myself before it would be real. I wasn'tsure how much more I was ready for, so I changed the subject.
"Why is Jacob still here?" I asked. "How can he stand it? Why should he?" My ringing voice trembled alittle. "Why should he have to suffer more?""Jacob isn't suffering," he said in a strange new tone. "Though I might be willing to change his condition,"Edward added through his teeth.
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