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Chapter 36 Bloodlust
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They came with pageantry, with a kind of beauty.
They came in a rigid1, formal formation. They moved together, but it was not a march; they flowed inperfect synchronicity from the trees—a dark, unbroken shape that seemed to hover2 a few inches abovethe white snow, so smooth was the advance.
The outer perimeter3 was gray; the color darkened with each line of bodies until the heart of the formationwas deepest black. Every face was cowled, shadowed. The faint brushing sound of their feet was soregular it was like music, a complicated beat that never faltered4.
At some sign I did not see—or perhaps there was no sign, only millennia5 of practice—the configurationfolded outward. The motion was too stiff, too square to resemble the opening of a flower, though thecolor suggested that; it was the opening of a fan, graceful6 but very angular. The gray-cloaked figuresspread to the flanks while the darker forms surged precisely7 forward in the center, each movementclosely controlled.
Their progress was slow but deliberate, with no hurry, no tension, no anxiety. It was the pace of theinvincible.
This was almost my old nightmare. The only thing lacking was the gloating desire I'd seen on the faces inmy dream—the smiles of vindictive8 joy. Thus far, the Volturi were too disciplined to show any emotion atall. They also showed no surprise or dismay at the collection of vampires10 that waited for them here—acollection that looked suddenly disorganized and unprepared in comparison. They showed no surprise atthe giant wolf that stood in our midst.
I couldn't help counting. There were thirty-two of them. Even if you did not count the two drifting,waifish black-cloaked figures in the very back, who I took to be the wives—their protected positionsuggesting that they would not be involved in the attack—we were still outnumbered. There were justnineteen of us who would fight, and then seven more to watch as we were destroyed. Even counting theten wolves, they had us.
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