The Twilight Saga 3: Eclipse PREFACE

To my husband, Pancho,for your patience, love, friendship, humor,and willingness to eat out.And also to my children, Gabe, Seth, and Eli,for letting me experience the mixed bag of love that people freely die for. Fire and Ice or so swan the world will end in fire, Some regulate in ice.From what Ive tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to drop dead twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Robert FrostPREFACE alone OUR ATTEMPTS AT SUBTERFUGE HAD BEEN IN VAIN.With ice in my heart, I watched him build up to defend me. His intense concentration betrayed no hint of doubt, though he was outnumbered. I knew that we could expect no help at this moment, his family was fighting for their stomachs nevertheless as surely as he was for ours.Would I ever reckon the outcome of that other fight? Find out who the winners and the losers were? Would I live long enough for that?The odds of that didnt look s o great.Black eyes, high-risk with their fierce craving for my death, watched for the moment when my protectors attention would be diverted. The moment when I would surely die.Somewhere, far, far away in the cold forest, a eat howled.