Twilight you are my light

Nora, who stayed in the room all day, just saw off Sulpicia who came to chat, and the room full of laughter and laughter returned to desertion.Although Sulpicia is swift and resolute in her actions, she has an exquisite heart.She's the only one who doesn't call Nora "Ahinodora," which is enough to make Nora feel friendly and fond of her.

When Nora stopped being against the Volturi, she realized how much everyone in the Volturi respected her.Even Marcus, who has only met her once, will have a faint smile on his perennially stern face when he sees her, which makes Nora feel very flattered.

When she asked Sulpicia in confusion, Sulpicia explained the reason to her.

"Marcus..." Sulpicia's face showed nostalgia, "Maybe it's because Ahinodora once made a pot of soul flowers for Marcus."

"Soul flower?"

"Ahinodora lived in times when there were prophecies and gods. I heard that she believed in the gods of ancient Greece very much, so she believed that after death, their souls would go to Hades. Hermes would Lead these lost souls to the River Styx, where the God of Hades will lead them across, while Cerberus, the three-headed dog, will prevent those dead from returning to the world.

When souls cross the River Styx, they will reach Asphodelfield and forget their memories on earth.In the end, there are three judges on the forking road who will decide the final destination of the soul.Good people will be allowed to go to Elysium, where the sun shines forever; bad people will be sent to hell (Tartarus), where there is no sun in the abyss; those who cannot decide will be brought back to the Bridge of Naihe again. "

Sulpicia paused for a moment, she pursed her lips and continued: "Ditimi, she was Marcus' wife, but she died in a war. Ahinodora sent Marcus She made a seed from her ashes and gave it to him. She believed that death is a new life, and Di Timmy will return to us one day. It is because of this seed that Marcus continues to live. .”

Nora listened to Sulpicia's pious tone and quietly thought about the topic of "death". Vampires were also human beings, and their views on death may be different, but what remains unchanged is that they also know nothing about the world after death.During the years that Nora stayed in the human world, the people she came into contact with the most were Christians, who believed that death was a kind of salvation.

Nora kept thinking about Marcus' desolate smile in her mind, and felt slightly blocked.In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that the world after death may not be as fair and beautiful as described in religious beliefs. Death is not a new life but a real end.

Life dies and life is born every day, and the world falls into a constant cycle of reincarnation, but for the individual life, the death means that everything is over.

"Ahinodora sounds like a saint," Nora joked, looking at the depressed Sulpicia.

"Oh yes, she is the most saint-like person I have ever seen." Sulpicia adjusted her sitting posture, and she stroked Nora's hair as if she was stroking her own child, "Honey, maybe you The appearance of Marcus gave Marcus a new hope."

Sulpicia then changed the subject and began to exchange fashion ideas with Nora, and the atmosphere in the room became lively again.Sulpicia brought her several fashion magazines, both Italian and American, and they gushed about them.

Sulpicia looked at the time and bid farewell to Nora. She liked Nora more and more. Nora's character made her see the combination of Ahinodora and Ditimi.

After Sulpicia left the room, Nora got up to do nothing again. She yawned, lay on the sofa with her face in her hands, and was scribbling on paper with a pencil in her right hand.Her current routine is to stay up at night and get up in the morning, and she will not sleep until the moon does not sleep.

After Caius took her back to Volterra from Leghorn, Nora was "ravaged by love" by Caius almost every day.Now she doesn't dare to wear clothes that highlight her figure or low cut, and she doesn't dare to pout her buttocks to pick up things that fall on the ground.Caius always had various reasons to ask her to do weird things, which made her exhausted and unable to stop.

When Nora heard Caius walk into the room, she didn't want to raise her eyes lazily, but said with difficulty, "You're back?"

"En." Caius responded concisely. He sat next to Nora and gave Nora an intimate kiss. He casually took a few Nora's paintings from the coffee table and looked at them.After looking at several pictures in a row, Caius finally couldn't help asking: "Who are these paintings?"

Nora immediately regained her spirits when she heard Caius' question. She took out a painting from Caius's hand and introduced it enthusiastically.Pointing to the family of three, she said, "This is Bella, this is me, and this is Charlie."

Caius watched the three stick figures in the painting and fell into a kind of self-doubting silence.In his opinion, the three stick figures are almost identical except for their height and hairstyle.

Caius tried to save some dignity, he picked up the other one in his hand and looked at it carefully for a while, and made a bold guess: "This should be me, Aro and Marcus, right?"

Nora stretched her head towards the painting Caius was holding, with an aggrieved expression brewing on her face.What's the matter with this man, I can guess wrong even though I drew it so clearly.

"That's Arrow, Alec and Jane!"

Caius' hand holding the drawing paper was bruised, and he was speechless as he looked at the stick figure with long golden hair.Caius put down Nora's "masterpiece" and grabbed Nora's hand holding the pencil. He felt that he might die of anger if he continued to guess like this.He couldn't figure out why Ahinodora, who had been able to be a painting tutor in Sulpicia, had degraded so badly now.

"No!" The desire to win in Nora's eyes seemed to be aroused, she broke away from Caius' hand and raised a painting in her hand to hit Caius in the face.

"Who is this painting?"

"Ahinodora, don't mess around." Caius wanted to pretend to be stern so that Nora could let his poor brain go, but his time-tested trick lost its due effect today.

"Say." Nora lowered her face, her gray-blue eyes no longer had a watery feeling, but a murderous look replaced them.

"...You and me." Caius felt that the knife was already on his neck. He had never been so uncertain at this moment when he was fighting in Crete before.After uttering the three words, his thin lips were tightly pursed, his eyes were sharp like eagles, trying to look at his lover through the terrible painting.

"You..." Nora put down the painting in her hand with a "swish", her face was full of embarrassment and anger.Before she could finish her snarl, her lips were tightly sealed, preventing her from uttering a word.

Nora opened her eyes slightly, and she felt a masculine breath blowing towards her face. The cold breath was mixed with a faint smell of blood and woody amber.The enlarged version of Caius' face was printed in front of his eyes, and the long-term melody allowed Caius to grasp the switch of Nora's body.Her body softened, and Caius let Caius taste her sweet lips freely.

When Nora thought that Caius was about to make another invasion, he stopped.

There was a hint of doubt in Nora's absent-minded eyes. She watched Caius licked her lips as if nothing had happened, and her head exploded instantly. A sense of embarrassment of being molested surged in her heart.She slapped the drawing paper on Caius' hard chest viciously, and turned her back to Caius angrily.

Caius looked at Nora's childish behavior amusedly. Was it because of his own love that he started to feel confident.But he had to admit that although this kind of Ahinodora was naive and naive, it was more lively, and it reminded him of the days when he and Ahinodora just lived together.But then he shook his head silently in his heart.

"Don't be angry, I'll take you to the palace." Caius coaxed Nora in a good voice, and lightly pecked Nora's cheek.

"Really?" Nora became playful when she heard that she could go out, and she showed Caius a common skill of women - changing faces.

She couldn't wait to put on her shoes, hooked Caius' outstretched arm and walked out of the room.This time, Caius didn't pick up Nora and move at the speed of a vampire. He walked slowly in the corridor with Nora, like a couple taking a walk.

The entire corridor was silent, with tapestries of the Volturi crest hanging on the walls, and the floor tiles were still made of stone and cement.These unremarkable stones have actually existed here for thousands of years. It can be said that the entire Volturi Palace is a priceless art palace.

Caius led Nora back and forth to a door, and when they opened the door, they saw a long corridor, which ended in an empty main hall with several open doors. The doors lead to different areas.

This corridor is particularly luxuriously furnished, the entire passage is dominated by red and gold, the walls are covered with portraits, and the floor is covered with a long carpet.The portraits included pictures of the Volturi three together, of her and Sulpicia with a dark-haired woman who looked like Aro, and of the husband and wife.

They stood in front of their portrait, and Nora watched the portrait in which they were wearing a different style of clothing than the other two groups.Marcus's group wore the oldest styles, followed by his own.Aro and Sulpicia are up-to-date, and they are pictured in smart suits and gowns.

Looking at the painting of Marcus, Nora probably guessed that Marcus's partner was the elder lady who died first, followed by the death of Ahinodora.Marcus and Caius never had portraits painted after their partners died one after another.

Nora took a peek at Caius, and the nostalgia and memories on Caius' face made Nora a little bit apprehensive.Nora felt a little frustrated looking at the dignified and exquisite woman in the portrait, who was exquisite from head to toe.She has heard the name of Ahinodora from many people, and their evaluation of Ahinodora is all praise and appreciation.

The high probability that Caius loves is her before rather than her now.

When Nora stepped into the Art Palace in Volturi, her troubles were immediately forgotten, and she was deeply shocked by the scene in front of her.The main hall is a hexagonal room with a soaring roof, world treasures are hung in an orderly manner on the wall, and statues are placed back to back in a row in the center of the room, leaving passages around for people to walk.

Even the noblest people in the world can't help admiring the magnificent decoration, which cannot be achieved only by strong financial resources, but also needs time to settle and inherit.Nora was deeply attracted by this art palace, and she couldn't put it down when she looked at the various out-of-print paintings and sculptures collected in the palace.

If she had known there was such a good place, she would not have escaped.

Nora is like a butterfly in the flowers, lingering around in the museum, she can't get enough of it, she can't wait to set up camp here from today.Seeing that the time was approaching late at night, Caius finally led her to the deepest room in the art gallery.

Compared with the magnificent Palace of Arts, this room is more like a private collection room, filled with portraits of Caius and his wife.Temperature control equipment is installed in the collection room to maintain a constant temperature in the room, and the paintings are suspended from the ground.Nora looked at these portraits as if she was looking at the history of human clothing evolution. In each painting, they were wearing clothes from different periods, as if they were playing a large-scale cosplay.

"You spent a lot of portraits." Nora exclaimed looking at the huge number of portraits.

"It's us." Caius corrected. Seeing that Nora seemed to be studying these paintings carefully again, he quickly hugged Nora and forcibly took them out of the art gallery.

"Where are we going now?"

"Go to the concert hall."