You know, it occurs to me: it should be obvious that the Volterra would leave one pack member in Jacob’s pack—all Chelsea has to do is leave that attachment, rather than weaken it, and they have someone with split loyalties who probably wants Jacob to rejoin the guard.
True as far as it goes, but presumably that’s only useful to them under two circumstances: (a) they think they can get Jacob back through that wolf, or (b) they think they can detect Jacob’s location using that wolf.
The Volterra seem like the sorts to have given up on (a) a while ago… Jacob goes where Elspeth goes, Elspeth is demonstrably unreliable, ergo Jacob isn’t reliable, and none of them are particularly valuable. Kill ’em all.
(b) is more compelling. That said, if they are accustomed to using Demetri to find people, it may simply not have occurred to them to construct a backup plan. “Why bother? Demetri will return eventually, with.… um.… whatever unimportant task it is he’s trying to accomplish accomplished, and then we’ll deal with Jacob and Elspeth.”
Elspeth is in fact unreliable, but she didn’t escape from Volterra the second time under her own power. Addy and Jacob took her. So it’s not as obvious to the Volturi as all that.
You know, it occurs to me: it should be obvious that the Volterra would leave one pack member in Jacob’s pack—all Chelsea has to do is leave that attachment, rather than weaken it, and they have someone with split loyalties who probably wants Jacob to rejoin the guard.
True as far as it goes, but presumably that’s only useful to them under two circumstances: (a) they think they can get Jacob back through that wolf, or (b) they think they can detect Jacob’s location using that wolf.
The Volterra seem like the sorts to have given up on (a) a while ago… Jacob goes where Elspeth goes, Elspeth is demonstrably unreliable, ergo Jacob isn’t reliable, and none of them are particularly valuable. Kill ’em all.
(b) is more compelling. That said, if they are accustomed to using Demetri to find people, it may simply not have occurred to them to construct a backup plan. “Why bother? Demetri will return eventually, with.… um.… whatever unimportant task it is he’s trying to accomplish accomplished, and then we’ll deal with Jacob and Elspeth.”
Elspeth is in fact unreliable, but she didn’t escape from Volterra the second time under her own power. Addy and Jacob took her. So it’s not as obvious to the Volturi as all that.