So, we’re finally getting close to the actual battle. Their current plan seems sound, but I really wonder what Adelaide is doing that might derail it, or what the Volturi themselves have done to counteract any attack; they’re not stupid, as Siobhan said.
It would seem that Pera remembers enough of Bella to be quite irrationally afraid of her. :)
It’s amusing to see Siobhan become more and more exasperated with being the leader of this operation. I’m beginning to understand why she doesn’t want to be “Queen of the World”, even though she’s very qualified for the position. She has little ambition beyond being the chief vampire of Ireland, and quickly becomes bored with the people around her, when in a leadership position.
I honestly am not buying the degree of Pera’s skittishness with respect to Bella. Their meeting wasn’t even that traumatic, she lunged and was restrained and unhid. As a vampire it should barely register. Did Chelsea increase her minor fear of Bella?
Pera has irrational degrees of fear about stuff in general. (Personality-based powers and hers is hiding.) Chelsea is not responsible and Pera’s fear of Bella was never minor.
Bella reflecting on the incident with Pera made me realize that, while they’ve planned for mate bonds snapping in, they haven’t planned for singers. I suppose that if Nathan goes nuts and devours an imprint, it wouldn’t be absolutely catastrophic for anybody but him (and, well, the imprint, and her mate)--and the only way to close off that possibility would be to avoid sending any vampire into the village.
Actually (although you aren’t expected to know this) any singer in the village will have marinated in nasty wolf smell long enough that Nathan has a reasonable chance of checking the impulse to eat her. (Edward makes a comment to this effect about Bella in canon.)
Chapter 42 spoilers.
So, we’re finally getting close to the actual battle. Their current plan seems sound, but I really wonder what Adelaide is doing that might derail it, or what the Volturi themselves have done to counteract any attack; they’re not stupid, as Siobhan said.
It would seem that Pera remembers enough of Bella to be quite irrationally afraid of her. :)
It’s amusing to see Siobhan become more and more exasperated with being the leader of this operation. I’m beginning to understand why she doesn’t want to be “Queen of the World”, even though she’s very qualified for the position. She has little ambition beyond being the chief vampire of Ireland, and quickly becomes bored with the people around her, when in a leadership position.
I honestly am not buying the degree of Pera’s skittishness with respect to Bella. Their meeting wasn’t even that traumatic, she lunged and was restrained and unhid. As a vampire it should barely register. Did Chelsea increase her minor fear of Bella?
Pera has irrational degrees of fear about stuff in general. (Personality-based powers and hers is hiding.) Chelsea is not responsible and Pera’s fear of Bella was never minor.
Bella reflecting on the incident with Pera made me realize that, while they’ve planned for mate bonds snapping in, they haven’t planned for singers. I suppose that if Nathan goes nuts and devours an imprint, it wouldn’t be absolutely catastrophic for anybody but him (and, well, the imprint, and her mate)--and the only way to close off that possibility would be to avoid sending any vampire into the village.
Actually (although you aren’t expected to know this) any singer in the village will have marinated in nasty wolf smell long enough that Nathan has a reasonable chance of checking the impulse to eat her. (Edward makes a comment to this effect about Bella in canon.)
Indeed. That may also make her more receptive to suggestions that perhaps she should be helping stop vampires from eating humans in general.