Twilight you are my light

After Caius got home, he took another shower immediately. When he brushed his hair and walked into the bedroom, he saw Nora studying the box on the table with all her heart.

"What's in this box of yours?" Caius asked curiously as he watched Nora wipe the box carefully. Nora carried this box all the way, and he had never seen such a precious thing as Nora.

"This is our precious clue." Nora put down the towel and opened the box. Inside lay a cosmos that had long since withered into shape, a piece of brown-black shell as thin as a cicada's wing, and a pure white dress. .

Caius first took out the pure white dress from the box and rubbed it gently on his hands. He will never forget a dress, and his Ahinodora left his world in this dress.When the dress that often appeared in his memory came back to him, Caius couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Nora couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that these things were well preserved, and she collected all the items that accompanied her.She believes that one day she will use these things, and she has a vague feeling that these things will be clues to solve the final mystery, which is why she has been insisting on returning to Forks.

She concentrated on recalling the process of waking up, breaking free, and finally turning into a human form, trying to find some clues from it. For a while, the two people in the bedroom fell into their own thoughts.

Nora took a closer look at this skin-like shell and came to no conclusions, so she tried to use her superpower to sense the structure of the shell.This is another ability derived from her besides controlling the growth of plants. She can feel the essence of plants through touch, but this time her super power is not working.

Nora's eyes widened slightly, she wasn't sure if it was because the shell affected her abilities.She put the shell on the table and tried to activate the super power again. This time she successfully conjured a small daisy in the palm of her hand.

She grabbed the shell again with one hand, and tried to use her super power with the other.Sure enough, she failed again.She had no idea what was so special about this shell that it could seal her own superpowers.

"Caius, try it..." Nora blurted out, and soon she realized that she had said the wrong thing.

Caius himself has no special abilities. Although he is a prestigious elder in Volturi, Nora can feel Caius' obsession with the fact that he has no special abilities.She glanced timidly at Caius, but unexpectedly received no response, which was unusual for Caius.

She turned her head to look at Caius who was sitting on the bed strangely, and saw him burying his head in his clothes, closing his eyes and quietly sniffing the remaining smell of Ahinodora.

Nora's numbness spread from her chest all the way to her brain, followed by endless coolness.She lowered her eyes and turned her eyes back to the box. Looking at the withered cosmos, she felt desolate. Maybe when she returned Ahinodora to him, her ending would be just like this cosmos. ruined.

Obviously he is the one who occupies the magpie's nest, so what right does he have to be jealous of Ahinodora?

Nora shook her head mockingly and threw the shriveled brittle shell back into the box. What she had to do now was to get her memory back as soon as possible, so that she had completed her mission.Nora tidied up her wounded heart, and gently stroked Caius' shoulder comfortingly...

Since Nora reopened the box, strange things have increased, and she suffers from nightmares every day. This box is like Pandora's box, and all the bad things slip out of the cracks.

Nora's dreams are always dark, with a chaotic and swirling quality.She often feels like she is wrapped in an airtight chrysalis, or like a bean wrapped in a pod.Every time she wakes up, she feels exhausted for a while, sometimes with confusion and short-term memory loss.

The inability to fall asleep peacefully made Nora's spirit depressed. Although Caius was worried about Nora's mental state, he could do nothing about it.Even Carlisle, who has practiced medicine for 300 years and has seen a lot, doesn't know whether Nora has a physical problem or a mental problem. He can only give Nora some tranquilizers and sleeping pills to help her recover from this bad state. Get out quickly.

Tranquilizers and sleeping pills worked well at first, but as Nora got used to them, she needed more and more.Carlisle was categorical in refusing to increase Nora's medication because it would only make things worse.

Caius offered to take Nora back to Volterra, but Nora firmly refused, convincing Caius that her abnormality was due to her subconscious mind slowly sprouting.

Blue-black dark circles appeared under Nora's eyes, her consciousness was sometimes lucid and sometimes confused, and she felt that she was walking on the verge of madness.She needs the company of Caius to sleep soundly. She can sleep for ten or twenty hours in a row and then wake up for a while.When Nora slept that long for the first time, she was jolted awake by a slightly panicked Caius, who then gradually figured out how long she had slept.

Today is no exception, Nora has fallen asleep since midnight.Caius looked at his watch and calculated that Nora would wake up for at least three hours. During this time, he arranged for Felix to stay guard in the house while he went hunting in Seattle.

After sending Caius away, Felix glanced at the sky. The night was full of stars, but accompanied by an ominous red curtain looming.He closed the door with a solemn expression, went upstairs to take a look at Nora who was still sleeping, and then went back to the living room to watch the Seattle Seahawks football game.

The moment Felix turned on the TV, Nora's body disappeared on the bed.

This time Nora's dream was different from the past. In her dream, she was tightly wrapped by a ball of warm light, like a newborn baby, and the light holding her gave her detailed instructions. , which gives the key to open the problem.

Nora had no idea how she had escaped Felix from the house, nor how she had traveled nearly eighty miles to La Push Beach.But the only thing she was sure of was that her current situation was not good. She was cornered by a group of Quileutes at this time.

La Push Beach is the territory of the Quilut tribe, where a group of werewolves live, and the werewolves are the biggest natural enemies of vampires.These Quileutes are tall, with flexible and strong limbs.There were not many of them, and perhaps the people who came were family members who had awakened werewolf blood.

Nora herself was considered a vampire, and she felt unprecedented pressure surrounded by such a large group of natural enemies.

Nora caught sight of Jacob among the group of robust men and women, but she didn't let her guard down.The relationship between her and Jacob can't be called friendly, let alone the hostile relationship between their identities and positions, even before Nora's awakening, their relationship was just a nodding acquaintance.After Caius beat up their people last time, Nora became even more desperate about her reason for coming.

"Don't you know that this beach is our territory? Vampires are such a group of talkative people?" A younger-looking boy shouted at Nora.

"It is the Karen family who signed the agreement with you, not me." Nora replied calmly. Under the dim light, Nora's face was a bit cold.

The boy was not swayed by Nora's deceitful appearance. In his view, vampires were all monsters wearing seductive human skins and shamelessly harming human beings.Just as he was about to taunt a few words, Sam pushed Billy who was in a wheelchair, and walked out from behind the crowd with his wife Emily.Sam patted the boy on the shoulder, and the boy gave Nora a glare and stepped back obediently.

"Nora, what's the matter with you coming so late?" Billy looked kindly at the woman in the cloak.

He and Sam are both members of the Quileute Committee, and they can be considered as people with some say in the Quileute tribe.Because of Bella, he and Nora had met a few times.In reason, he should ask.

"Billy, I want to enter your forbidden mountain." Nora looked straight at Billy in the wheelchair. She ignored the jeers and jeers from the crowd, and said firmly, "Please tell me what to do." You have to do it to get in."

"With all due respect, the Forbidden Mountain is my family's sacred mountain, and filthy things like you are not allowed to enter." Sam knew that Billy was soft-tempered, so he stood up and rejected Nora sternly.

"Please! If you have any requests, please do so!" Nora begged Sam and Billy. She was reminded in a dream that going to the Forbidden Mountain was an essential part of her memory recovery.

"Please go back, Nora." Although Billy couldn't bear it, some things were a matter of principle.

Just when Nora was about to turn around and leave in disappointment, she saw a little girl with braids running quickly towards Sam, and then whispered a few words in his ear.

"Wait a minute." Sam frowned and called to Nora who was about to leave, "My great-grandfather wants to see you, come with me."

As soon as this remark came out, the crowd was in an uproar.Those werewolves stared at Nora with probing eyes, and then surrounded her to the most respected elder's house of the Quilut tribe.

Sam stops those who want to watch the fun, and he takes Nora, Emily and Billy into his great-grandfather's house.It was a large wooden one-story house with a lake-green roof.Sam knocked on the door of his great-grandfather's room, and opened it when he was answered.

Sam's great-grandfather was Levi Uli, son of Thomas Uli I.The Uli line is a branch of the tribe's earliest ancestor, Taha Aji, Thomas Uli, the oldest known ancestor of the Uli family.His son and grandson are dead, but he is served in the clan like a living ancestor.

Levi was old enough to be called a centenarian for his age.Levi's teeth were basically gone, his skin was shriveled like dead wood, and he looked very thin, but his straight body showed that he was still hale and hearty.His sunken eyes were covered with a layer of white mist, and his eyes were staring straight ahead absently.

"Great-grandfather," called the strong Sam, standing aside respectfully, and Levi's head was slightly tilted towards Sam, and it was only then that Nora realized that the old man was blind.

"Are you going to the Forbidden Mountain?" the old man said leisurely, and his sentence was a declarative sentence.

"Yes, I need to go in and find the key to unlock my lost memory." Nora directly revealed the purpose of coming.

Levi shook his head slightly, his long hair brushing lightly over his gray robe.

"Then what you are going to is not the mountain of our family's ancestral hall, but the mountain of nothingness."

Sam looked at his great-grandfather in surprise. He seemed to have thought of something, and looked at Nora standing at the door with a complicated expression.

"I don't understand. Do you have two mountains?" Nora frowned. She recalled the instructions in her dream carefully, wondering if she had made a mistake?

"Sam thought that the Forbidden Mountain you were going to was our back mountain. There is a ancestral temple on the back mountain, so it is sometimes called the Forbidden Mountain. But it's no wonder, that legend has been lost for a long time, and it's normal for people to misunderstand. "Levi took a sip from the teacup with fingers like dead wood, he paused and continued.

"But I know that what you want to go to is actually the Mountain of Nothingness. There is a legend in our family that anyone who can successfully reach the top of the Mountain of Nothingness will have a wish come true. The bet for entering the mountain is their souls. The loser will be trapped on the mountain for life after life, and will be tortured." Levi asked calmly: "Even so, do you want to go?"

"Go." Nora put all worries behind her. When she promised Caius to return Ahinodora to him, she had already lost the right to choose.

Levi felt the aura of Nora's body, and smiled slightly.He groped and took out an old box from the drawer, then leaned on the crutches at hand and walked slowly towards Nora. His awkward hands and feet made the little girl and Emily standing beside him quickly step forward to help him he.

"Sam, let's go to the bonfire in the backyard." Levi's voice became high-pitched, sounding full of energy.

The backyard of the Quilut people is a flat land with a pit built with stones in the middle. In the pit are several thick pieces of wood with burnt black marks on them.

Levi told Sam to light a bonfire, which lit up the backyard with sky-high light.He opened the box in his hand and took out a strangely shaped mirror and handed it to Nora. He asked Nora to hold the mirror and burn it on the fire, and then lay on the ground holding the mirror.After doing all this, Levi slowly explained.

"The so-called mountain of nothingness is a mountain that does not exist. It is said that there is nothing on this mountain, nothing exists, and nothing is true. After the ceremony begins, your soul will enter this mirror to reach the mountain of nothingness, You need to climb to the top of the mountain of nothingness, or you'll be trapped in it forever before then."

Levi knelt and sat beside Nora under the support of Sam, his dull eyes were brightly lit by the fire.That mirror is one of the holy objects of Quilut, which is an extremely yang object, known as the sun mirror.

"If you survived, you will be able to come out of the mirror safe and sound. But if you fail..." Levi coughed a few times, as if being smoked, "Then your body in real life will wither, and your consciousness will be trapped on the mountain. Are you ready? It's not too late to quit."

"Nora, if you fail, you will pay a terrible price. I don't know what you want to achieve, but there is nothing more important than life." Jacob came in from nowhere, he was a young werewolf He is a leader in the field and has the potential to become a wolf.He frowned and looked at Bella's friend, wondering why these two people both love to do such dangerous things.

"I've thought it through." Nora smiled and looked at Jacob.

"Listen, I know you don't like us, and I don't like you either. But as a person with a good conscience, I sincerely hope that you can think about it more." Jacob is a very passionate and kind-hearted young man, and he spares no effort Trying to convince Nora, even for Bella.

Nora looked at the sky, she hugged the cold mirror without saying a word.

Everyone present understood Nora's determination, so they stopped persuading her.

Levi began to mutter something, he bit his finger and dripped blood on the precious mirror.A ball of light shone from the mirror, Nora's mouth was opened wide, and blue-black white smoke was drawn from her mouth and pulled into the mirror.Her face was distorted and her eyes widened, as if she had seen something frightening.

"Good luck, dear Ahinodora." Levi closed Nora's eyes with trembling hands.