Twilight you are my light

The Quilut tribe is one of the tribes of the Indians. They are also a tribe recognized by the US federal government. After they signed the Quinut Treaty in 1855, they were forced to move to La Push Beach.

The population of this group is not very large, there are only a few hundred people in total, and only a few people have awakened the shapeshifter blood.As the bloodlines are diluted little by little, so are the number of shapeshifters.

The origins of Levi and Caius go back almost 100 years.

At that time, Levi was still a teenager with a lot of muscle.The entire length of his right arm is tattooed with patterns so beloved by the Quileutes that they cover the horrific scars on his right arm.

His long hair was tied behind his head, coupled with his sharp eyes, his whole body was full of masculine and wild aura.

Levi's age has passed the age of marriage, and he is said to be past the age, but in fact he is only in his twenties. The reason why he is not married is because he has not yet found his imprinted lover.His father persuaded him that the imprinted lover could never be found, and before that he could not be alone because of pursuing this.

He compromised, he sat outside the house and quietly watched the people in the clan busily discussing the marriage that had been arranged for him, and he didn't feel half of the joy of being a family in his heart.

The one who was engaged to him was Ellen Longtree, a female family member of the collateral branch. After the male relatives of the two parties negotiated the dowry and bride price for the two young people, the matter was considered a certainty.As the son of the leader of the Uli tribe, Levi has a high status in the entire Quileute tribe, so the bride price alone envied many tribesmen.

Ellen is undoubtedly grateful for this, because according to the old tradition, her future status in the family is directly proportional to the bride price that the man is willing to offer at the time of marriage.While it might sound like a conflict with current values, it was true back then.

Looking at his loving parents, Levi also had some expectations for marriage in his heart, but he really didn't know how to get along with the girl.Although his lofty status and strong fighting power have won him the favor of many girls, he has little interest in these bold girls.He only wanted to marry a woman who was like him, but it was obvious that he had not met such a woman and had already been forced to marry.

Levi lived in the early twentieth century, when Indians began to assimilate into modern society.They put on suits, some left Quileut to work elsewhere in the United States, and their children attended Quileut schools.But generally speaking, everyone is still willing to bring their relatives together, because the overall atmosphere in the United States was not very friendly to these Indians at that time.

The Quileutes were also happy to live a self-sufficient life in their own reservation area, and vampires were not so rampant at that time.Perhaps the thriving and prosperous human world has made those cold-blooded animals have the desire to explore, or those who have already understood how stupid it is to offend the Quileutes with wolf blood.

The awakening of the shapeshifter bloodline needs an opportunity, but the word opportunity itself has an element of coincidence in it, and Levi's shapeshifter bloodline was only awakened a few years ago.

It has only been a few decades since the last time vampires attacked the tribe. Levi heard from the elders about the tragedy the tribe experienced, so he had a very bad impression of vampires.

One day, he was patrolling the border with a self-made weapon as usual, and it was his bounden duty to protect the safety of the tribe.As the next leader of the Uli tribe, he must build up his majesty.It was at such a time that Caius appeared where he should not have been, holding in his hand a manuscript that Ahinodorase had given him.

Yahenodora described the shape, taste, characteristics, etc. of the plant in detail in the manuscript. The plant she wanted was called yarrow. There is a native species of millefolium in Italy, but she would like to know where it grows. How do other subspecies on the west coast of North America differ from native Italian yarrow.

Ahinodora knew that Caius was going to Seattle, so she asked Caius to find this plant for her.

"These plants grow in areas between 200 m and 2,300 m above sea level, and are found in wet meadows, wastelands, and along railway lines" (cited in Wikipedia).

Caius cherished this manuscript of his lover all the way, and the graceful handwriting allowed him to ease his longing when he was out.

According to the manuscript, there are three types of yarrow that are native to the west coast of North America. He has found two types so far, and the guards have brought them back to Volturi in advance, and he is now concentrating on finding the first one near La Push Beach. Three subspecies.

In fact, Ahinodora did not ask Caius to find all three subspecies, she just slipped one to Caius before he went out, so that he would bring it back when he saw it, but she forgot that Caius Erce pursues meticulous individuality.Caius thought that he must find all the varieties and give Ahinodora a big surprise when he returned to Volturi.

To use an analogy, the wife instructs the husband to bring home a bag of rice on the way home from work before the husband leaves the house. Who knows that the husband went to n supermarkets just to buy all kinds of rice brands.

Caius had already seen Ahinodora's smiling face in surprise, and he had even begun to imagine the kisses, hugs, and...

Cough, far away.

Just as Caius was approaching La Push Beach full of ambition, he was caught by Levi, and the two finally fought without saying a word.He didn't want to fight this Indian at first, but who would have expected that this young man turned out to be a shape-shifter.

The small fight at the beginning eventually turned into a real fight between the two. Caius had to admit that the shapeshifter in front of him was not much better than a werewolf. As a shapeshifter, he could fight him This degree is only a minority.

Levi's superb fighting skills ignited Caius' desire to win, Caius laughed excitedly, and fought with Levi again.Levi obviously didn't expect Caius to be so strong. He drew out the silver dagger in his arms. He believed the rumors in the clan that vampires were afraid of silver products.

"Are you going to stab me with your toy dagger?" Caius smiled contemptuously at the silver dagger in the hands of the panting Levi.

Compared with Levi's large muscles, Caius' figure is more slender, and his figure belongs to the lean and strong type.He was wearing a long, well-fitting suit jacket, and was holding an elegant silver cane in his hand.

"Stop talking nonsense. If you don't get out of here again, don't blame me for killing you." Levi's body was tense, and his muscular texture supported the thin cotton shirt.

"You can try it." Caius didn't take Levi's harsh words to heart at all. He licked his dry lips and watched Levi rushing towards him with a silver dagger.

Caius used his cane to block the silver dagger that shaved iron like mud, and swung the cane at the opponent's face with his backhand. Levi could only retreat back, so as not to be hit by the cold and thin cane. own face.

Levi rolled to a safe distance. Looking at the cane in Caius' hand, he knew that silver weapons were useless against vampires, because the cane was made of sterling silver.He bowed his head and cursed secretly, threw the dagger in his hand to the ground, took off his coat, turned into a giant wolf, and rushed towards Caius.

Caius thought that the opponent had finally shown his last card. Relying on the vampire's excellent eyesight, he quickly found Levi's weakness and smiled confidently, but Levi's flaws were exposed on purpose by himself. .

When Caius realized that he was being deceived, he let out a low growl and grabbed Levi's neck angrily, trying to subdue him to the ground, but despite this, Levi managed to break through Kaius in wolf form clothes on his chest.

Caius looked at the torn suit and strangled Levi's neck angrily, until the people of Quilut came one after another.This made him have to leave first, but he knew that he would not swallow this breath easily.

After Levi returned to human form, he felt the fear of being dominated by the power of Caius, and he got up from the ground in fear.The clothes on his body had been torn, and he could only look for the dropped coat in the grass.

Instead of the coat, he found two things that Caius had left behind.The same is a severed necklace, and the other is a manuscript torn apart by wolf claws.

Levi studied the delicate round necklace with a sapphire in it.He thought to himself that vampires like to do such fancy things, and that vampire actually likes such a motherly necklace.

Levi twisted the necklace, and found that it looked like the kind of necklace with portraits popular in the nineteenth century, and opened the lid with pictures inside.

The moment he saw Ahinodora's photo, he understood what it means to be a branded lover.

Levi's mouth felt parched, and he stared eagerly at the picture of Ahinodora, trying to imagine her vividly through the picture.

No one can explain the principles or rules behind branding a lover. This branding that transcends time, space and race makes Levi completely panicked, not to mention the continuation of the family and the marriage contract on him.

Levi ran back to the clan in disheveled clothes, brought the tattered paper and pendant home with a guilty conscience, and locked himself in the room to study the paper.

He thought it was a love letter or something at first, but when he put the pieces back together it turned out to be a botanical manuscript.Levi saw at a glance that it was the yarrow unique to their area, and immediately understood why Caius had come.

Distraught, Levi locked the two things into a box and threw them in the bedside table. He lay on the bed and forced himself to drive away the image of a girl in his mind.

This is crazy.

……

(mirror world)

Nora re-transported back to the black hall at the beginning through the monster's gravel. She spread out her palm in a trance, and there were two citrines lying quietly in her palm.She seemed to know something, looked up at the snake-shaped statue, walked forward and put the citrine on the snake's eyes.

The eyes of the statue snake burst out with a strong yellow light, and Nora covered the fierce light with her hands, squinting to see what happened.Under the influence of the light, she seemed to see the giant python twisting its thick body. The scales of the snake were carved so realistically that the whole sculpture seemed to come alive.

After the yellow legs were gone, Nora put down her hands in front of her eyes, and the giant python was perched on the statue pillar and was spitting snake letters at her.Its golden eyes contained the light of wisdom, and its raised black snake head looked down on Nora, just like a high god looking down on weak humans.

"Tell me, what wish do you want to make?" The black snake wagged its tail, leaning on the statue pillar in an extremely charming manner.

"What do you mean?" Nora couldn't figure out what was going on.

At first she thought the mirror would let her climb the mountain, but after she came in the mirror threw her into the town.Later, there was a big scissor monster in town chasing her, so she could only assume that she should kill the monster to get rid of it.

So that "climbing to the top of the mountain" thing is all Levi's random shit?

The black snake quietly climbed down from the pillar. It twisted its body and slowly wrapped itself around Nora's body. The cold touch seemed to be a way for it to transmit information and memory.Through contact, Nora figured out the rules of the mirror.

People who break into the mirror world need to be judged by the inner world. This mirror reflects the ugliest side of people's hearts.

People are born with original sin, the most common of which are the seven deadly sins recorded in the Bible: gluttony, drug addiction, greed, anger, laziness, envy and arrogance.

The worst crime Nora committed was jealousy, and her jealousy conjured up a monster to kill in the town.

As Nora and Kaiser's relationship deepened, Nora felt jealous of Kaiser's popularity, and her emotions directly affected the mania of the monster.Unless she can control her jealousy well, she can only get away by successfully killing the monster.

The cruelty of the mirror world just reflects a person's moral character. Those who have their souls taken away by the mirror world have either committed too many crimes, so that there are too many monsters to collect debts; or they are too unlucky to understand at all. There is no way to get out, so he simply stays in this world and does not go out.

Convicting more than one crime is indeed like climbing a mountain, you need to pass one level after another.The so-called "climbing to the top of the mountain" is nothing more than passing the test.

The price of entering the mirror world is too high, this is a gamble with no way out.Whether it is the person who enters, or the person who helps them enter the mirror world, they need to stake their souls.If Nora fails to kill the monster in the end, both Nora's soul and Levi's soul will be harvested by the mirror.

This is also the reason why this precious mirror will be put away. After all, not many people would be willing to do such a laborious thing that may not bring good results.The generation of the mirror passed down to Levi is the last generation, and the method of entering the world after Levi's death will be lost.

The black snake let go of Nora's body, and it gracefully turned back to its original position, looking at Nora playfully.

"How about it, have you made up your wish?"

"I want to get Ahinodora's memory back." Nora said the words that she had phrased countless times.

"Oh? You can make a wish that Caius will only love you alone, or that Ahinodora will never come back, so what use is Ahinodora's memory to you?" Black Snake grinned It seemed to be smiling, "I want to remind you that you can achieve any wish, which also means that you can choose to start your life again. This is your victory, your right, and your wish."

Black Snake's words were like the sound of the magic flute, which manipulated Nora's thoughts.Nora looked at the black snake in disbelief, her gray-blue eyes lit up for a moment, but the light quickly went out again.

Nora was silent for a moment and then laughed at herself: "I can't do such a thing. What's more, my life is to live like Ahinodora, how can I start a new life?"

"It's so difficult, you can still choose to stay in the mirror world. I can see that you like Kaisas, what a good boy he is. Now that the monsters are gone, don't you think about it Is it a boy?" Seeing that Nora was beginning to waver, the black snake spared no effort to continue blowing the wind.

Thinking of Kaisas, Nora still hesitated.She knew in her heart that her liking for Kaisas was only based on Caius, just as Caius' love for her was based on Ahinodora.

Once the memory is poured back into the body, he may lose the right to control the body, or even disappear.No one can know what will happen after the memory comes back, so should I be more conservative and selfishly grasp my own happiness?

The black snake looked at Nora's hesitation with satisfaction. Disturbing people's hearts is what it likes to do most. It likes to watch human beings struggle with themselves, which makes it very interesting.

"...I don't think so. Let's stick to the original wish. Please retrieve Ahinodora's memory." Nora struggled for a long time, and finally looked at the black snake calmly.

She looked into the shocked golden eyes of the black snake and said: "The price of my happiness is to torture the other two people, so that they will never have a chance to reunite, but as long as I retrieve the memory, I can fulfill those two people. I love him, I know what he wants, so I'd rather give up what I want the most."

"You..." The black snake wanted to say something, but it was rarely at a loss for words, because it knew that the human being in front of it had already made up its mind.

"I'm already tired. I don't want to spend any more time and affection to start a new life. I'm far from being strong enough."

The black snake didn't speak anymore, it erected its body, its head pressed against Nora's forehead, and its golden pupils gradually enlarged.

Nora fell to her knees the second she touched the black snake, and she lay on the floor holding her head in pain.She patted her head with her hands trying to pat out all the chaos inside. Her head was filled with too many things, and the pain in her nerves made her tear up.

There are too few adjectives to describe pain, and Nora has no way to describe her pain in words. Perhaps life would be better than death is the most appropriate word.

In her mind, she heard the roar of the train, followed by a sound like an explosion, and then the voices of the crowd and the chirping of birds appeared, and if she listened carefully, she could hear the sound of the waves.

These irrelevant elements appeared in Nora's mind at the same time. She couldn't open her eyes to see the real world, and the colorful lights in front of her eyes kept crossing and flickering.

At some point, her consciousness gradually separated from her body, and her brain stopped thinking instinctively.Nora seemed to be thrown into a turbulent ocean. She was constantly beaten by the rolling waves, and could only sway in the water following the rhythm of the waves.

Nora reluctantly opened her eyes, but what she saw was pitch black.She smiled bleakly, thinking that she might disappear soon.

Ah, I really want to hug Caius one last time.

The black snake sent the unconscious Nora out of the mirror world. It poked at Nora's soft body and murmured, "Norah...no, Ahinodora, you have a miracle you haven't discovered."