Carlisle and Edward had not been able to catch up with Irina before her trail disappeared into the sound. They’d swum to the other bank to see if her trail had picked up in a straight line, but there was no trace of her for miles in either direction on the eastern shore.
在伊琳娜的声音消失之前，卡莱尔和爱德华还是没有追上她。于是他们游到了河那边寻找找到她的踪迹，如果她走的是直线的话。但是很可惜，东边海滩的任何一个方向都没有她的存在。
It was all my fault. She had come, as Alice had seen, to make peace with the Cullens, only to be angered by my camaraderie with Jacob. I wished I’d noticed her earlier, before Jacob had phased. I wished we’d gone hunting somewhere else.
全是我的错。如果一切如爱丽丝所料，她应该是来和解的，但是全被我和雅各布的打闹搞砸了。如果我能找点发现她，起码在雅各布变身之前，或者我们一开始就在其他地方打猎就好了。
There wasn’t much to be done. Carlisle had called Tanya with the disappointing news. Tanya and Kate hadn’t seen Irina since they’d decided to come to my wedding, and they were distraught that Irina had come so close and yet not returned home; it wasn’t easy for them to lose their sister, however temporary the separation might be. I wondered if this brought back hard memories of losing their mother so many centuries ago.
现在也没什么好办法。卡莱尔刚把这个失望的消失告诉坦尼娅，自从她和凯特决定在参加我的婚礼后，就再没见过伊琳娜了。但是这次伊琳娜离家这么近都不回去看看她们，实在是让人伤心。对她们来说，不管是不是暂时的，失去自己的姐妹都是非常难受的。我猜这可能会让她们想起失去几个世纪前失去自己的母亲的痛苦回忆。
Alice was able to catch a few glimpses of Irina’s immediate future, nothing too concrete. She wasn’t going back to Denali, as far as Alice could tell. The picture was hazy. All Alice could see was that Irina was visibly upset; she wandered in the snow — swathed wilderness — to the north? To the east? — with a devastated expression. She made no decisions for a new course beyond her directionless grieving.
爱丽丝能看见伊琳娜最近几天未来的片段，但没什么实际作用。她没有回德纳利，在爱丽丝能预示的时间范围。而且这些片段非常模糊，唯一清晰的就是伊琳娜悲伤的表情。她在一个白雪皑皑的荒野徘徊——北边吗？还是东边？满脸崩溃的样子。在这样无助的悲伤下，她不可能做出任何新的决定。
Every detail had been gone over a hundred times already. We would start with the Ticunas, tracing their legends as well as we could at the source. Now that it was accepted that Jacob would come with us, he figured prominently in the plans — it was unlikely that the people who believed in vampires would speak to any of us about their stories. If we dead-ended with the Ticunas, there were many closely related tribes in the area to research. Carlisle had some old friends in the Amazon; if we could find them, they might have information for us, too. Or at least a suggestion as to where else we might go for answers. It was unlikely that the three Amazon vampires had anything to do with the legends of vampire hybrids themselves, as they were all female. There was no way to know how long our search would take.
每个细节都被考虑了无数遍，我们将从蒂库纳人开始，跟着他们古老传说的脚印前进。现在雅各布同行的事也被大家接受了，而且还起着至关重要的作用——想要让那些根本不相信吸血鬼存在的人告诉我们他们的故事，可不是件容易的事。就算在蒂库纳人身上我们一无所获，他们附近也还是有许多类似的种族。而且卡莱尔在亚马逊那边也有很多老朋友，如果我们还能找到他们，相信也能从他们那儿获得很多信息，至少到时也能决定下个目的地是哪里。不过很可能我们在那三个亚马逊吸血鬼身上不能找到任何关于吸血鬼混血儿的消息，因为她们三儿都是女的。我们完全不知道这趟旅程何时才会结束。
Days passed and, though of course I forgot nothing, Irina and her pain moved to the back of my mind. There were more important things to think of now. I would leave for Italy in just a few days. When I got back, we’d all be off to South America.
日子一天天过去，但我什么都没有忘记，伊琳娜和她的痛苦时时刻刻在我脑海盘旋。但现在我有更重要的事要考虑，几天之内我就要出发去意大利了。等我回来后，我们马上就会去南美洲。
Meanwhile, Emmett and Jasper were more excited about planning the hunting possibilities. The Amazon offered a change from our normal quarry. Jaguars and panthers, for example. Emmett had a whim to wrestle with an anaconda. Esme and Rosalie were planning what they would pack. Jacob was off with Sam’s pack, setting things up for his own absence.
此时，埃美特和贾斯帕倒是对新的狩猎可能兴奋无比。相比于平时的猎物，亚马逊森林给我们提供了更多的选择。例如，美洲虎和黑豹。埃美特有个怪异的念头——想跟亚马逊巨蟒摔跤。埃斯梅和罗莎莉讨论着行李的问题。雅各布今天回山姆那里去了，要交代下他离开的这段时间的一些问题。
I hadn’t told Charlie about the longer trip yet, and I stewed about what to say to him while Edward and Carlisle’s discussion went on. How to break the news to him just right?
我还没告诉查理关于这趟长途旅行的事，至少在爱德华和卡莱尔的计划还没有成型的之前。我纠结着，到底告诉他什么才是最合适的呢？
Alice moved slowly — for her — around the big room, unnecessarily tidying the already immaculate space, straightening Esme’s perfectly hung garlands. She was re-centering Esme’s vases on the console at the moment. I could see from the way her face fluctuated — aware, then blank, then aware again — that she was searching the future. I assumed she was trying to see through the blind spots that Jacob and Renesmee made in her visions as to what was waiting for us in South America until Jasper said, “Let it go, Alice; she’s not our concern,” and a cloud of serenity stole silently and invisibly through the room.
爱丽丝轻手轻脚的走动着——怕吵醒蕾妮斯梅——一会儿收拾下已经非常干净的角落，一会儿整理下埃斯梅插好的漂亮花环。现在又重新摆着埃斯梅放好了的花瓶。从她变化的表情——清醒，发呆，又清醒，又发呆——我知道，她在搜索未来。我琢磨着她应该是想看清雅各布和蕾妮斯梅造成的盲点，来弄明白到底南美洲有什么在等着我们。直到贾斯帕说：“别管她了，爱丽丝。她不是重点。”像剥开了房间里笼罩的乌云，见月明。
I stared at Renesmee while I debated internally. She was curled up on the sofa now, her breathing slow with heavy sleep, her tangled curls splayed wildly around her face.
当内心天人交战之时，我凝视着熟睡的蕾妮斯梅，她的头发在沙发上散开，还有一些纠缠在脸上。
Usually, Edward and I took her back to our cottage to put her to bed, but tonight we lingered with the family, he and Carlisle deep in their planning session.
平时爱德华和我都会带她回森林小屋睡的，但是今天我们准备在大屋里消磨整晚，再加上他和卡莱尔也要再推敲一下他们的计划。
My first illogical thought was that Alice was playing some joke on us. Because there was no way that Alice could have dropped the vase by accident. I could have darted across the room to catch the vase in plenty of time myself, if I hadn’t assumed she would get it. And how would it fall through her fingers in the first place? Her perfectly sure fingers…
我第一感觉是爱丽丝在跟我们开玩笑呢。因为就连我都有充分的时间在它掉下来的过程中跑过去接住它，爱丽丝怎么可能做不到呢。更确切的说吧，一开始花瓶就不可能掉下来，从那样有力的手指中……
She stuck her tongue out at Jasper and then lifted one crystal vase that was filled with white and red roses and turned toward the kitchen. There was just the barest hint of wilt to one of the white flowers, but Alice seemed intent on utter perfection as a distraction to her lack of vision tonight.
她朝贾斯帕吐了吐舌头，接着拿起一个装满白玫瑰和红玫瑰的水晶花瓶，去了厨房。那里面只有一朵白玫瑰，有一点点基本上看不出来的凋谢的痕迹。不过今晚，爱丽丝似乎打定主意把完美主义当做她看不见的未来的代替品了。
Alice must have been worrying about Irina again.
原来爱丽丝还在担心伊琳娜。
Staring at Renesmee again, I didn’t see it when the vase slipped from Alice’s fingers. I only heard the whoosh of the air whistling past the crystal, and my eyes flickered up in time to see the vase shatter into ten thousand diamond shards against the edge of the kitchen’s marble floor.
当我正准备转身接着看我的蕾妮斯梅时，花瓶从爱丽丝手上滑下。我听见空气擦过厚重的水晶花瓶时发出的呜呜声，眼睛一眨不眨盯着它落地、摔破、变成上万碎片射向厨房的大理石地板的各处。
We were perfectly still as the fragmented crystal bounced and skittered in every direction with an unmusical tinkling, all eyes on Alice’s back.
当碎片弹起发出刺耳的声音，飞向各个方向时，我们谁都没有动。所有人都盯着爱丽丝的背影。
Her eyes were halfway here and halfway locked on the future, wide, staring, filling her thin face till they seemed to overflow it. Looking into her eyes was like looking out of a grave from the inside; I was buried in the terror and despair and agony of her gaze.
她的眼睛似乎只有一半在看着现在，另一边还在盯着未来，瞳孔放大，凝视，未来的信息好像要从她脸上漫出来一样。那一刻我以为她刚从坟墓里走出来，只是被她扫了一眼我就像要被恐惧、失望和极度的痛苦所掩埋一样。
And then Alice was facing us, twisting in a move so fast it didn’t exist.
接着，爱丽丝转身面对我们，非常快像瞬间移动那样。
Emmett moved into my peripheral vision, his teeth bared while his eyes darted toward the window, anticipating an attack.
埃美特动了，望向窗外咧开嘴威胁着，预防着任何攻击。
I heard Edward gasp; it was a broken, half-choked sound.
然后，我听见爱德华喘息的声音，那是一种崩溃，几乎窒息的声音。
“What?” Jasper growled, leaping to her side in a blurred rush of movement, crushing the broken crystal under his feet. He grabbed her shoulders and shook her sharply. She seemed to rattle silently in his hands. “What, Alice?”
“怎么了？”贾斯帕吼道，飞奔到她身边，踩在水晶碎片上。他抓住她的双肩，猛烈的摇着她。这时她似乎才清醒过来。“爱丽丝，怎么了？”
I had never seen a vampire drop anything by accident. Ever.
我没有见过任何吸血鬼因为不小心而摔了什么东西，从来没有。
There was only silence from Esme, Carlisle, and Rose, who were frozen just as I was.
但这里只有埃斯梅、卡莱尔和罗莎的沉默存在，他们跟我一样僵在地上。
Jasper shook Alice again. “What is it?”
贾斯帕又摇了摇爱丽丝问：“到底怎么了？”
“They’re coming for us,” Alice and Edward whispered together, perfectly synchronized. “All of them.”
“他们来了，”爱丽丝和爱德华同时低声道：“全部人。”
For once, I was the quickest to understand — because something in their words triggered my own vision.
几乎同时，我明白了——他们话里的东西让我想起自己脑子里的一个画面。
Stronger than the memory of the sight came the memory of the feel — the wrenching need to protect the precious thing behind me.
接着，一个比这恐怖回忆更强烈的感觉占据我的全部内心——保护我身后最重要的东西。
It was only the distant memory of a dream — faint, transparent, indistinct as if I were peering through thick gauze… In my head, I saw a line of black advancing on me, the ghost of my half-forgotten human nightmare. I could not see the glint of their ruby eyes in the shrouded image, or the shine of their sharp wet teeth, but I knew where the gleam should be…
那是一个久远的梦里画面——昏眩的、透明的、朦胧的，像蒙了一层厚厚的黑纱……在我的脑子深处，我看见黑影在自己身上笼罩，那是我几乎忘记了的人类时的噩梦的鬼影。从这裹尸布一样的画面中，我看不到他们鲜红的眼睛，看不到他们锋利的白牙，但我知道那闪光是什么。
Silence.
一片死寂。
I wanted to snatch Renesmee up into my arms, to hide her behind my skin and hair, to make her invisible. But I couldn’t even turn to look at her. I felt not like stone but ice. For the first time since I’d been reborn a vampire, I felt cold.
我想抱起蕾妮斯梅，我想把她深深的藏到自己的身体内，藏到头发里，让她不被任何人所见。但我却连转身看看她都做不到。我觉得自己像变成了一块冰块，而不是石头。自从我重生为一个吸血鬼之后，第一次，我感觉都寒冷。
“The Volturi,” Alice moaned.
“沃尔图里家族。”爱丽丝悲喃。
“Why?” Alice whispered to herself. “How?”
“为什么？”爱丽丝自言自语：“他们怎么知道的？”
“All of them,” Edward groaned at the same time.
“……的全体。”爱德华几乎同时低叹。
I barely heard the confirmation of my fears. I didn’t need it. I already knew.
但我不需要去听任何让人害怕的确认，我早就明白了。
“Why?” Carlisle was the one to ask this time.
“为什么？”这次是卡莱尔在问。
“This isn’t about Bella,” Alice said hollowly. “They’re all coming — Aro, Caius, Marcus, every member of the guard, even the wives.”
“不管贝拉的事，”爱丽丝空灵的说：“他们全都来了——阿罗、卡尤斯、马库斯，卫队的所有成员，甚至连他们的妻子也来了。”
“They’re coming now,” Edward whispered.
“他们现在来了。”爱德华低声说。
Esme answered. “They must have a reason. Maybe to see…”
埃斯梅回答：“他们肯定是有什么原因。会不会是看到……”
“Why?” Esme echoed.
“为什么？”埃斯梅重复着。
“But why?” Carlisle said again. “We’ve done nothing! And if we had, what could we possibly do that would bring this down on us?”
“但是，为什么？”卡莱尔重复了一遍：“我们什么都没做！就算我们做了什么，也不至于有这样毁灭性的结果啊。”
“Not long,” she and Edward said together. Then she spoke alone. “There’s snow on the forest, snow on the town. Little more than a month.”
“不是很久，”她和爱德华同时说，接着她独白：“堡垒上和森林里都还有雪，应该在一个月以内。”
Alice’s eyes didn’t blink, but it was as if a veil covered them; they became perfectly blank. Only her mouth held on to her expression of horror.
爱丽丝张大眼，眼睛逐渐失去焦距，接着是一片空白。只有嘴巴还保持着刚才恐惧的样子。
“The wives never leave the tower,” Jasper contradicted her in a flat voice. “Never. Not during the southern rebellion. Not when the Romanians tried to overthrow them. Not even when they were hunting the immortal children. Never.”
“他们的妻子从来不离开堡垒的，”贾斯帕平静的反驳道：“从不。在南方叛乱时没有，在罗马尼亚人试图推翻他们时也没有，甚至在他们消灭吸血鬼小孩时都没有。从来没有。”
“When?” Jasper repeated in a voice like splintering ice.
“到底是何时？”贾斯帕用破碎的冰一样的声音问。
“When?” Edward whispered.
“什么时候？”爱德华轻问。
“That doesn’t answer the crucial question! Why?”
“这还是没有回答最关键的问题！为什么？”
“There are so many of us,” Edward answered dully. “They must want to make sure that…” He didn’t finish.
“我们人太多了，”爱德华呆滞的说：“他们肯定是怕万一……”他没有说下去。
But that still didn’t answer the question.
但这还是没能回答刚才的问题。
I felt I knew the answer to Carlisle’s question, and yet at the same time I didn’t. Renesmee was the reason why, I was sure. Somehow I’d known from the very beginning that they would come for her. My subconscious had warned me before I’d known I was carrying her. It felt oddly expected now. As if I’d somehow always known that the Volturi would come to take my happiness from me.
我觉得我好像知道卡莱尔的问题的答案了，但突然我又动摇了。我敢肯定，蕾妮斯梅就是原因。不知道为什么，从一开始我就有预感，他们会为她而来。在知道自己怀了她以前，潜意识就已经警告过我了。现在，我有种终于发生了的奇怪感觉，就像不知为什么我一直知道沃尔图里家的人会来把我的幸福夺走一样。
“Go back, Alice,” Jasper pleaded. “Look for the trigger. Search.”
“往回看看，爱丽丝，”贾斯帕建议：“有没有什么可能的诱因，仔细搜索下。”
“She decided to go to them,” Alice said. “Irina decided to go to the Volturi. And then they will decide… It’s as if they’re waiting for her. Like their decision was already made, and just waiting on her…”
“她决定去找他们，”爱丽丝说：“伊琳娜决定去见沃尔图里的人。然后他们很可能决定……就像他们一直在等着她一样。就像他们早就有决定了，只是需要一个理由——”
Alice shook her head slowly, her shoulders sagging. “It came out of nowhere, Jazz. I wasn’t looking for them, or even for us. I was just looking for Irina. She wasn’t where I expected her to be…” Alice trailed off, her eyes drifting again. She stared at nothing for a long second.
爱丽丝慢慢的摇了摇头，塌下双肩说：“无处可寻，小杰。我并不是在找他们，也不是我们自己。刚才我只是在找伊琳娜。她并不在任何我以为的地方……”爱丽丝越说越小声，再次进入恍惚中，目光渐渐失去焦距。
And then her head jerked up, her eyes hard as flint. I heard Edward catch his breath.
过了好一会儿，她猛地一抬头，眼睛艰难的闭了一下，接着我听见爱德华突然屏住呼吸。
“Can we stop her?” Jasper asked.
“我们能阻止她吗？”贾斯帕问。
It was silent again as we digested this. What would Irina tell the Volturi that would result in Alice’s appalling vision?
当得出这样的结论后，我们一片寂静。伊琳娜到底告诉了沃尔图里家族些什么，才会导致爱丽丝所见的结果？
“What is she doing?” Carlisle was asking, but I wasn’t paying attention to the discussion now. All my focus was on the picture that was painstakingly coming together in my head.
“她现在在做什么？”卡莱尔问，但我几乎完全听不见他的话了，脑海里塞满了即将到来的痛苦景象。
I pictured Irina poised on the cliff, watching. What had she seen? A vampire and a werewolf who were best friends. I’d been focused on that image, one that would obviously explain her reaction. But that was not all that she’d seen.
我看着伊琳娜从容的离开悬崖，她那时看见了什么？一个吸血鬼和她的好朋友，狼人？虽然这幅图像就已经很明显的解释了她的所有反应。但她看到的应该远不止这些。
Irina… the orphaned sisters… Carlisle had said that losing their mother to the Volturi’s justice had made Tanya, Kate, and Irina purists when it came to the law.
伊琳娜……孤儿三姐妹之一……卡莱尔告诉过我，对坦尼娅，凯特，和伊琳娜来说，失去自己的母亲让她们成为了彻底的法治论者。
“There’s no way. She’s almost there.”
“不可能。她马上就要到那里了。”
She’d also seen a child. An exquisitely beautiful child, showing off in the falling snow, clearly more than human…
她还发现了一个小孩。一个精致美丽的小孩，在雪地里玩耍，绝对不像普通的人类……
Just half a minute ago, Jasper had said the words himself: Not even when they were hunting the immortal children… The immortal children — the unmentionable bane, the appalling taboo…
仅仅在半分钟前，贾斯帕自己就这么说：甚至在他们消灭吸血鬼小孩时都没有……吸血鬼小孩——无法控制的祸害，是最可怕的禁忌……
Irina, wringing her hands in the snowy wilderness — not mourning Laurent, after all, but knowing it was her duty to turn the Cullens in, knowing what would happen to them if she did. Apparently her conscience had won out over the centuries of friendship.
但不管怎样，伊琳娜现在还是在大雪覆盖的野外徘徊犹豫着——而不是在劳伦特前面哭诉。可是衡量揭发卡伦家的责任和可能的后果两者，很明显，她的良心还是战胜了我们几个世纪的友谊。
With Irina’s past, how could she apply any other reading to what she’d seen that day in the narrow field? She had not been close enough to hear Renesmee’s heart, to feel the heat radiating from her body. Renesmee’s rosy cheeks could have been a trick on our part for all she knew.
如果伊琳娜就这样去了，那天她在那样狭小的区域所看见的所有事情肯定会被他们读出来。而且她那天太远了根本没听见蕾妮斯梅的心跳声，也不可能感觉得到她身体的温暖。她肯定以为蕾妮斯梅白里透红的脸蛋只是我们做的伪装。
And the Volturi’s response to this kind of infraction was so automatic, it was already decided.
而且沃尔图里家族对这种“违规”的责任感又如此理所当然。此时，判决已经生成了。
I turned and draped myself over Renesmee’s sleeping body, covering her with my hair, burying my face in her curls.
我低头靠紧蕾妮斯梅熟睡的小身躯，把头埋进她的卷发，将她藏在我的发丝里。
After all, the Cullens were in league with werewolves. From Irina’s point of view, maybe this meant nothing was beyond us…
毕竟，卡伦家族现在跟狼人结盟了。可能从伊琳娜的角度来看，这意味着没有什么东西比我们更可恨了。
“Think of what she saw that afternoon,” I said in a low voice, interrupting whatever Emmett was beginning to say. “To someone who’d lost a mother because of the immortal children, what would Renesmee look like?”
“想一想她下午看到的东西，”我低哑的说，打断埃美特正开始说的话。“想一想，对于一个正是因为吸血鬼小孩而失去母亲的的人来说，蕾妮斯梅是个什么样的东西。”
I babbled on, waiting for someone to exhale with relief, waiting for the icy tension in the room to relax as they realized I was right. The room just seemed to get colder. Eventually my small voice trailed off into silence. No one spoke for a long time.
我无法抑制地不停地说着，等待着某人来让我解脱，等待着他们相信我是正确的，然后让房间里这绷紧的冰冷的气氛消失。但气氛只是越来越冷，直到我的声音越来越小最后也归于寂静。没有人说话。
Then Edward whispered into my hair. “It’s not the kind of crime they hold a trial for, love,” he said quietly. “Aro’s seen Irina’s proof in her thoughts. They come to destroy, not to be reasoned with.”
过了很久，爱德华在我的头发里轻语。“但这并不是他们所知道的，亲爱的，”他轻轻的说道。“阿罗所知道的一切就是伊琳娜脑中的所见。他们是为了毁灭而来，而不是为了你的理由。”
“But she’s wrong,” I went on. “Renesmee isn’t like those other children. They were frozen, but she grows so much every day. They were out of control, but she never hurts Charlie or Sue or even shows them things that would upset them. She can control herself. She’s already smarter than most adults. There would be no reason…”
“但是她错了。”我接着说。“蕾妮斯梅和其他吸血鬼小孩不一样。其他的小孩，他们是冰冷的，停滞的，但她每天都在成长。他们无法控制，但她从来没有伤害过查理或苏，甚至没有在他们面前展示那些可能刺激他们的东西。她可以控制自己。她甚至比成人还要聪明。他们没有理由…。”
Everything was silent again as the others caught up to where I was already.
一切又恢复了寂静，就等着其他人来说出我心里的答案。
“They won’t wait for us to show them that.”
“他们不会给我们时间解释的。”
I felt Edward kneel beside me, wrap his arms over us both.
爱德华在我身后跪下，用臂膀将我和蕾妮斯梅紧紧地护起来。
“An immortal child,” Carlisle whispered.
“一个禁忌的…吸血鬼小孩。”卡莱尔轻声道。
“But they’re wrong,” I said stubbornly.
“但他们错了！”我固执的说。
Little over a month…
一个月…
His voice was still quiet, gentle, velvet… and yet the pain and desolation in the sound was unavoidable. His voice was like Alice’s eyes before — like the inside of a tomb.
他的嗓音仍旧平静、绅士，如丝绒一般…但无法隐藏其中的痛苦与悲凉。他的声音和不久前爱丽丝的眼睛一样——像一座毫无生气的空洞的坟墓。
“What can we do?” I demanded.
“现在我们能做什么？”我问道。
Was this the limit, then? I’d had more happiness than most people ever experienced. Was there some natural law that demanded equal shares of happiness and misery in the world? Was my joy overthrowing the balance? Was four months all I could have?
这又是另一个期限吗？相比于大多数人，我已经经历了太多的幸福，所以难道这一切的发生，就是应验了那条令世界上的幸福与痛苦保持平衡的自然法则？是我拥有的幸福太多了吗？我有资格拥有的只是仅仅这四个月吗？
“Well, we can’t run. Not with Demetri around.” Emmett made a disgusted noise, and I knew instinctively that he was not upset by the idea of the Volturi’s tracker but by the idea of running away. “And I don’t know that we can’t win,” he said. “There are a few options to consider. We don’t have to fight alone.”
“好吧，但我们也不可能逃跑。没有Demetri。”埃美特鄙弃地哼了一声，我本能的觉得他并不是因为沃尔图里的跟踪装置而恶心，而是因为那个逃跑的主意。“而且我根本就不知道为什么我们赢不了，”他说。“仍然有很多方法可以考虑。我们没有必要独自战斗。”
Renesmee was so warm and perfect in my arms, dreaming peacefully. I’d worried so much about Renesmee’s speeding age — worried that she would only have little over a decade of life… That terror seemed ironic now.
蕾妮斯梅在我的臂弯里，如此温暖、完美，平静地做着梦。我曾经如此的担心蕾妮斯梅那飞速的成长，担心她可能只能拥有短暂的十多年的生命…而那些担心，现在看起来是多么讽刺。
It was Emmett who answered my rhetorical question. “We fight,” he said calmly.
埃美特回答了我那个空洞的问题。“我们要战斗。”他冷静地说。
“We can’t win,” Jasper growled. I could imagine how his face would look, how his body would curve protectively over Alice’s.
“我们赢不了，”贾斯帕低声咆哮。我不用看就想象得出来他现在的表情，蹲伏着护着爱丽丝。
My head snapped up at that. “We don’t have to sentence the Quileutes to death, either, Emmett!”
听到这句话我猛地抬起头，“我们也不能将奎尔eutes置于危及生命的境地，埃美特！”
Carlisle echoed me in a whisper. “Other friends we don’t have to sentence to death.”
卡莱尔也对我低声安慰道，“还有其他的朋友，他们不会有生命危险的。”
“Chill, Bella.” His expression was no different from when he was contemplating fighting anacondas. Even the threat of annihilation couldn’t change Emmett’s perspective, his ability to thrill to a challenge. “I didn’t mean the pack. Be realistic, though — do you think Jacob or Sam is going to ignore an invasion? Even if it wasn’t about Nessie? Not to mention that, thanks to Irina, Aro knows about our alliance with the pack now, too. But I was thinking of our other friends.”
“别这样，贝拉。”他的语气就像看到自己在和亚马逊的巨蟒搏斗一样兴趣浓厚。即使是毁灭性的威胁也无法改变埃美特对此的热情，他狂爱挑战。“我并不是指他们。虽然这样，就现实来说，即使这不关内希的事，你认为雅各布或者山姆会对这样公然大规模的入侵没有一点反应？先不提这个，还多亏了伊琳娜，阿罗知道了我们狼人同盟的存在，但我想还应该考虑下我们其他的朋友。”
“Hey, we’ll let them decide,” Emmett said in a placating tone. “I’m not saying they have to fight with us.” I could see the plan refining itself in his head as he spoke. “If they’d just stand beside us, just long enough to make the Volturi hesitate. Bella’s right, after all. If we could force them to stop and listen. Though that might take away any reason for a fight…”
“嘿，我们可以让他们自己来决定，”埃美特用息事的声调说。“我并没有说他们一定得和我们一块战斗。”我感觉到就在说的过程中，一个计划正在埃美特的脑海中逐渐成形。“他们可以只用站在我们旁边，这样也许足够使沃尔图里犹豫。毕竟贝拉是对的，如果我们能够让他们停下来肯听我们说话，这样我们就有时间给出某个理由来避免这场战斗…”
“We’d need quite a show of witnesses,” Rosalie said harshly, her voice brittle as glass.
“那我们得需要一大打助阵嘉宾，”罗莎莉尖锐的说道，声音就像玻璃一样锋利。
“Yes,” Esme said eagerly. “That makes sense, Emmett. All we need is for the Volturi to pause for one moment. Just long enough to listen.”
“很对，”埃斯梅急切地说道。“如果那样就好了，埃美特。现在我们所需要做的就是让他们稍微停顿一下足以听我们的解释就可以了。”
“We’ll have to ask them just right,” Alice murmured. I looked to see her eyes were a dark void again. “They’ll have to be shown very carefully.”
“我们得马上就去问他们，”爱丽丝喃喃道。我观察她的眼睛，现在又是一片空洞的黑暗。“他们的出场必须低调。”
There was a hint of a smile on Emmett’s face now. I was surprised no one had hit him yet. I wanted to.
埃美特的脸上绽出隐隐的微笑。我很惊讶竟然没有人反驳他，而这正是我之前想做的。
Esme nodded in agreement, as if she hadn’t heard the sarcasm in Rosalie’s tone. “We can ask that much of our friends. Just to witness.”
埃斯梅点头以示同意，好像并没有听出罗莎莉话中的挖苦。“我们要尽量多的召集我们的朋友。只是助阵而已。
“Shown?” Jasper asked.
“出场？”贾斯帕问道。
“We’d do it for them,” Emmett said.
“我们只能这样做了。”埃美特道。
Alice and Edward both looked down at Renesmee. Then Alice’s eyes glazed over.
爱丽丝和爱德华同时低头看向蕾妮斯梅。然后爱丽丝的眼睛又朦胧起来。
“What about Peter and Charlotte?” Jasper asked half fearfully, as if he hoped the answer was no, and his old brother could be spared from the coming carnage.
“Peter和Charlotte呢？”贾斯帕有点畏缩的问道，他似乎希望回答是否定的，他的老兄弟们在即将来临的屠杀里还可能会起到一些作用。
“Tanya’s family,” she said. “Siobhan’s coven. Amun’s. Some of the nomads — Garrett and Mary for certain. Maybe Alistair.”
“有坦尼娅一家，”她念道。“西博汉的女巫们。阿蒙一家。还有一些零散的——加勒特和玛丽肯定会来。阿利斯泰尔也有可能。”
“Maybe.”
“也许。”
Alice seemed too deep into her vision to answer at first; finally she shuddered, and her eyes flickered back to the present. She met Carlisle’s gaze for the tiniest part of a second, and then looked down.
爱丽丝一直沉浸在未来里，突然她颤抖起来，眼睛恢复闪烁。她飞快地看了卡莱尔一眼，然后垂下目光。
“The Amazons?” Carlisle asked. “Kachiri, Zafrina, and Senna?”
“亚马逊一家呢？”卡莱尔问。“还有卡叽里，阿法里纳和森纳？”
“What was that?” Edward asked, his whisper a demand. “That part in the jungle. Are we going to look for them?”
“什么？”爱德华轻声的征询。“他们在丛林里，我们去找他们了没有？”
The silence was ominous for another long moment while Alice was in her trance. She blinked slowly when it was over, her eyes peculiarly opaque despite the fact that she was clearly in the present.
当爱丽丝陷入恍惚时，令人不快的寂静又出现了。结束后她慢慢地眨了眨眼，即使未来历历在目，她的眼神还是奇怪地恍惚着。
“There is so much. We have to hurry,” she whispered.
“太多了。我们得赶快！”她念道。
“I can’t see,” Alice repeated, not meeting his eyes. A flash of confusion crossed Edward’s face. “We’ll have to split up and hurry — before the snow sticks to the ground. We have to round up whomever we can and get them here to show them.” She zoned again. “Ask Eleazar. There is more to this than just an immortal child.”
“我看不到，”爱丽丝重复，没有看着他的眼睛。迷惑的表情爬上爱德华的脸。“我们得赶快，分头，在雪花落地之前（个人理解为极快的意思），我们得拉拢我们所能找到的每一个人出场。”她又强调了一遍。“去问以利亚撒。现在的问题可不只是禁忌的吸血鬼小孩了。”
“I can’t see.”
“我看不到。”
“Alice?” Edward asked. “That was too fast — I didn’t understand. What was –?”
“爱丽丝？”爱德华问。“这太快了，我没搞懂，这究竟——？”
“I can’t see!” she exploded back at him. “Jacob’s almost here!”
“我什么看不到！”她背对着他发起脾气。“雅各布他们离这儿很近了！”
Rosalie took a step toward the front door. “I’ll deal with –“
罗莎莉向前门走去。“我来和他们说…”
“Hurry!” she called back to us. “You have to find them all!”
“快！”她朝背后的我们喊道。“你们得找到他们所有人！”
“Find what?” Jacob asked, shutting the front door behind himself. “Where’d Alice go?”
“找到什么所有？”雅各布问道，走进来关上了前门。“爱丽丝要去哪？”
“No, let him come,” Alice said quickly, her voice straining higher with each word. She grabbed Jasper’s hand and began pulling him toward the back door. “I’ll see better away from Nessie, too. I need to go. I need to really concentrate. I need to see everything I can. I have to go. Come on, Jasper, there’s no time to waste!”
“不用，让他进来，”爱丽丝快速说道，每个单词她的声调都在提高。她抓住贾斯帕的手把他往后门推去。“我也应该离内希远点，这样能看到更多。我必须离开，我需要绝对的精神集中，我要看到我能看到的所有东西。我不得不走。快走，贾斯帕，没时间了。”
No one answered; we all just stared.
没有人回答。都只有目目相觑。
We all could hear Jacob on the stairs. Alice yanked, impatient, on Jasper’s hand. He followed quickly, confusion in his eyes just like Edward’s. They darted out the door into the silver night.
我们都听到雅各布上楼的声音。爱丽丝不耐烦地猛拽了一下贾斯帕的手。他赶快跟上，眼神就像爱德华的一样不解，然后他们冲出门，跃进了那银色诡异的夜晚。
Jacob shook the wet from his hair and pulled his arms through the sleeves of his t-shirt, his eyes on Renesmee. “Hey, Bells! I thought you guys would’ve gone home by now…”
雅各布抖掉他头发上的水珠，扯上他T恤的袖子，眼睛看着蕾妮斯梅。“嘿，贝尔！我以为你现在已经回小屋里去了呢…”
He looked up to me finally, blinked, and then stared. I watched his expression as the room’s atmosphere finally touched him. He glanced down, eyes wide, at the wet spot on the floor, the scattered roses, the fragments of crystal. His fingers quivered.
然后他对上我的目光，恍惚的，而后变成注视。这个房间里的气氛终于感染到了他。他低头一瞥，注意到地板上的水渍，支碎的玫瑰花，水晶的碎片。他的手指开始颤抖。
“Is she okay?” he demanded, touching her forehead, tilting his head as he listened to her heart. “Don’t mess with me, Bella, please!”
“她没事吧？”他问询到，轻轻地碰触她的额头，斜着脑袋倾听她的心跳。“别吓我贝拉，求你了！”
I couldn’t think where to begin. No one else found the words, either.
我不知道从哪开始讲起。其他也没有一个人知道该如何陈述这个状况。
“All of us, Jacob,” I whispered. And it was there in my voice, too — the sound of the inside of a grave. “It’s over. We’ve all been sentenced to die.”
“是我们，雅各布，”我低声说，此时我的声音也像是从坟墓底传出的一样。“糟透了。现在我们所有人都性命难保。”
“Nothing’s wrong with Renesmee,” I choked out, the words breaking in strange places.
“蕾妮斯梅没事，”我终于开了口，打破了这个屋子里的奇怪气氛。
“What?” he asked flatly. “What happened?”
“怎么了？”他用干瘪的语气问道。“发生了什么事？”
Jacob crossed the room in three long strides and dropped to his knees beside Renesmee and me. I could feel the heat shaking off his body as tremors rolled down his arms to his shaking hands.
雅各布三个大跨步就穿过房间然后跪在我和蕾妮斯梅的身边。我能感受到他辐射出的高温，那种震动仿佛从他的胳膊一直传导到他的颤抖的手掌。
“Then who?”
“那是谁有麻烦？”
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