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Art And AdAptAtion by young Kim

STEPHENIE

MEYER

Twilight: The Graphic Novel volume 2 art and adaptation: Young Kim inking assistant: ashley marie Witter Background assistant: haya c. Text copyright 2005 by Stephenie meyer illustrations 2011 hachette Book Group, inc. all rights reserved. except as permitted under the u.S. copyright act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. Yen press hachette Book Group 237 park avenue, New York, NY 10017 visit our websites at www.hachetteBookGroup.com and www.Yenpress.com Yen press is an imprint of hachette Book Group, inc. The Yen press name and logo are trademarks of hachette Book Group, inc. First hardcover edition: october 2011 iSBN: 978-0-316-13319-7 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 rrD-c printed in the united States of america

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I cant believe youve been coming here almost every night!

What else is there to do at night?

Besides, youre interesting when you sleep. You talk.

No! What did you hear?! You miss your mother...and you used to talk about home a lot. And...

...you said my name. Youre very warm...

Mmmm...

Oh no! Dont be selfconscious.

If I could dream at all, it would be about you. It seems to be... much easier for you, now, to be close to me. Why...is that?

Ah...

Mind over matter. Honestly... ......

Im...just pleasantly surprised. In the last hundred years or so, I never imagined anything like this.

Its not easy...

It will be harder tomorrow. I didnt believe I would ever find someone I wanted to be with...in another way than my...brothers and sisters. And then to find... Ive had the scent of you in my head all day, and Ive grown amazingly desensitized.

...even though its all new to me, that Im good at it...

If Im away from you for any length of time, Ill have to start over again.

...at being with you...

Not quite from scratch, though, I think. I...I want to hear more about you.

Ask me anything.

Why do you do it? I dont understand how you can work so hard to resist what you...are.

To try to retain... Please dont misunderstand, of course Im glad that you do. I just dont see why you would bother in the first place.

...whatever essential humanity we can.

...Thats a good question...

...and you are not the first one to ask it. The others the majority of our kind who are quite content with our lot they, too, wonder at how we live.

Hmm...

But you see, just because weve been... dealt a certain hand... ...it doesnt mean that we cant choose to rise above... ...to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. What would you say to...

About tomorrow...

...meeting my family?

Im not afraid of them. Im afraid they wont...like me.

Wont they be, well, surprised that you would bring someone...like me... home to meet them? Do they know that I know about them? Oh, they already know everything.

Are you afraid now? So youre worried, not because youre headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires wont approve of you, correct?

Yes.

Dont worry. Ill protect you.

Thats right.

Youre incredible.