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Q. WHEN EDWARD ATE THE PIZZA IN
THE BIT OF FOOD HE SWALLOWED?
A. Vampires cannot digest food, but they sometimes find themselves in a situation where eating human food is unavoidable to keep up a human facade. The food that they consume sits in their stomach until they can find a private place to cough it up.
Q. WAS EDWARD SECRETLY WATCHING BELLA IN
SHE WAS READING JANE AUSTEN?
A. Yes. In secret, Edward used to pay very close attention to everything Bella did before they began their relationship.
Q. WHY WAS BELLA‘S WINDOW SO EASY TO OPEN IN
A. The window was stuck and made a groaning sound the first time Edward opened it.
While Bella didn‘t wake up, Edward promised himself he‘d bring some oil for the window the next time, which he did.
Q. WHAT CAUSES EDWARD TO WARN BELLA ABOUT BEING ALONE IN
THE WOODS IN
A. There was no specific threat on Edward‘s mind when he warned Bella to stay out of the woods. (Peter and Charlotte had been visiting Jasper, but they didn‘t hunt in Forks, and they were already gone when Edward cautioned Bella.) It was more of a general sense of Bella‘s vulnerability that motivated the warning. He had tracked her scent in the woods after he came back from his hunting trip in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, and found himself unnerved by the image of her alone and unprotected. After all, Bella regularly attracted catastrophes.
Q. HOW WAS EDWARD ABLE TO DRINK BELLA‘S BLOOD AT THE END OF
A. Edward drank with his lips puckered, as if using a straw, and never touched her with his ?saliva.?
Q. IF VAMPIRES ARE SOLID LIKE GRANITE, DOESN‘T THAT MEAN THEY
MUST WEIGH A LOT?
A. It is possible for things to be really durable, but not weigh a tremendous amount.
Polymers are a good example of this. Vampires do, however, weigh more than humans of the same size.
Q. CAN ANIMALS BE TURNED INTO VAMPIRES?
A. No, only humans can be turned into vampires. Venom is deadly to animals.
Q. HOW IS EDWARD ABLE TO BE AROUND BELLA WHEN SHE HAS HER
MONTHLY CYCLE?
A. Edward is aware of what‘s going on physiologically with Bella, but he is too much of a gentleman to ever say anything about it, and Bella would be too embarrassed to ask if he noticed or was bothered by it. The blood from a woman‘s period isn‘t the same as a cut; it‘s not freshly oxygenated, not flowing from the heart.
Q. WHY DO ALICE‘S AND JASPER‘S SUPERNATURAL POWERS WORK ON
BELLA, BUT EDWARD‘S, ARO‘S, JANE‘S, ALEC‘S, CHELSEA‘S, AND HEIDI‘S
POWERS DON‘T AFFECT HER?
A. Bella has a shield that protects only her mind. Edward and Aro both have the ability to read minds, but their gifts are blocked by this shield. Jane, Alec, Chelsea, and Heidi also work inside the head. For example, Jane doesn‘t actually inflict pain on someone‘s body; she just puts the illusion of pain inside her victim‘s head. It‘s a very effective form of torture. Conversely, what Jasper does is no illusion. He affects the physical body, slowing the pulse and upping the endorphin levels to calm someone, for example, or raising the pulse and pumping out the adrenaline to excite people. Alice also works outside the mind, in the realm of possible realities.
She doesn‘t see the thought process behind the decisions — just the outcomes.
Q. DID BELLA REALLY HEAR EDWARD‘S VOICE IN
HIDING IN THE BUSHES, OR WAS HE SOMEHOW COMMUNICATING WITH
BELLA TELEPATHICALLY?
A. Edward was in England, Texas, and Brazil for most of
Q. HOW COULD BELLA FALL IN LOVE WITH JACOB ALL OF A SUDDEN
IN
A. Bella actually falls in love with Jacob in