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Chapter 37 Contrivances
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Aro did not rejoin his anxious guard waiting on the north side of the clearing; instead, he waved themforward.
Edward started backing up immediately, pulling my arm and Emmett's. We hurried backward, keepingour eyes on the advancing threat. Jacob retreated slowest, the fur on his shoulders standing2 straight up ashe bared his fangs3 at Aro. Renesmee grabbed the end of his tail as we retreated; she held it like a leash,forcing him to stay with us. We reached our family at the same time that the dark cloaks surrounded Aroagain.
Now there were only fifty yards between them and us—a distance any of us could leap in just a fractionof a second.
Caius began arguing with Aro at once.
"How can you abide4 this infamy5? Why do we stand here impotently in the face of such an outrageouscrime, covered by such a ridiculous deception6?" He held his arms rigidly7 at his sides, his hands curled intoclaws. I wondered why he did not just touch Aro to share his opinion. Were we seeing a division in theirranks already? Could we be that lucky?
"Because it's all true," Aro told him calmly. "Every word of it. See how many witnesses stand ready togive evidence that they have seen this miraculous8 child grow and mature in just the short time they'veknown her. That they have felt the warmth of the blood that pulses in her veins9." Aro's gesture sweptfrom Amun on one side across to Siobhan on the other.
Caius reacted oddly to Aro's soothing10 words, starting ever so slightly at the mention of witnesses. Theanger drained from his features, replaced by a cold calculation. He glanced at the Volturi witnesses withan expression that looked
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