First prediction that came to my head: Volturi learned about Elspeth and Bella from Cody and sent some sort of magical impersonator to ambush the pack. But that would require two different powers—first reading Cody’s mind to learn Bella’s appearance and then doing the impersonation. So it’s Del who’s the ambusher. Which also makes sense strategically, because instead of having to take out Pera before getting ripped to shreds, she just has to touch her, get the hell out of there and hide the reinforcements waiting nearby (but well beyond the range of Pera’s feeble senses). Or maybe unhide Pera and then kidnap her—the wolves could be dealt with later. Or, for extra nightmare fuel value, be left forever trapped in the hiding place.
Normally, when reading fiction, I come up with optimistic predictions. This story must radiate some sort of aura of doom.
I briefly considered the possibility of this Bella being a Volturi impersonator too, but I didn’t delve into that hypothesis as much as the others—probably because I don’t really like how the Volturi has all these original characters with awesome gifts. It definitely makes sense to send Del if they have an agent with a gift capable of impersonation though. It would be another great move by the Volturi, even though this situation and the one in La Push more or less fell in their laps, and they just proceeded to do the obvious with what they had. Playing on Cody’s loneliness was a smart move though, if that is what they did.
I think I’ll be disappointed if your hypothesis turns out to be true. I think the only thing that even slightly speaks against it is that Bella’s/Del’s eyes turned black when Pera hid her. I don’t know if Del would react that way, but Bella certainly would if Pera is her singer. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s update!
This would be significantly more awesome than the singer hypothesis, but suddenly jumping on Pera instead of safely approaching and touching her is stupid in that scenario.
First prediction that came to my head: Volturi learned about Elspeth and Bella from Cody and sent some sort of magical impersonator to ambush the pack. But that would require two different powers—first reading Cody’s mind to learn Bella’s appearance and then doing the impersonation. So it’s Del who’s the ambusher. Which also makes sense strategically, because instead of having to take out Pera before getting ripped to shreds, she just has to touch her, get the hell out of there and hide the reinforcements waiting nearby (but well beyond the range of Pera’s feeble senses). Or maybe unhide Pera and then kidnap her—the wolves could be dealt with later. Or, for extra nightmare fuel value, be left forever trapped in the hiding place.
Normally, when reading fiction, I come up with optimistic predictions. This story must radiate some sort of aura of doom.
YAY!
And now my image of you has been altered to be ever so slightly more like GIR.
*googles, watches a 2-minute video of clips of the character*
...Yeah, I get like that sometimes.
I briefly considered the possibility of this Bella being a Volturi impersonator too, but I didn’t delve into that hypothesis as much as the others—probably because I don’t really like how the Volturi has all these original characters with awesome gifts. It definitely makes sense to send Del if they have an agent with a gift capable of impersonation though. It would be another great move by the Volturi, even though this situation and the one in La Push more or less fell in their laps, and they just proceeded to do the obvious with what they had. Playing on Cody’s loneliness was a smart move though, if that is what they did.
I think I’ll be disappointed if your hypothesis turns out to be true. I think the only thing that even slightly speaks against it is that Bella’s/Del’s eyes turned black when Pera hid her. I don’t know if Del would react that way, but Bella certainly would if Pera is her singer. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s update!
They don’t have that many original witches. (Although I did have to make up Corin and Afton’s powers because they weren’t specified in canon.)
This would be significantly more awesome than the singer hypothesis, but suddenly jumping on Pera instead of safely approaching and touching her is stupid in that scenario.