EDWARD

The Volturi are a very old, very powerful family. I guess, the closest thing to royalty

my world has.



BELLA

Is that Carlisle?



EDWARD

Yeah. He lived with them for a few decades. Described them as very refined. No respect for human life, of course, but ...respect for the arts and science as at least. And the law ...above all of law.



BELLA

And vampires have laws?



EDWARD

Not very many. There's only one and it's regularly enforced.



BELLA

What is it?



EDWARD

To keep the existence of our kind a secret. We don't make spectacles of ourselves, and we don't kill conspicuously. Unless, of course, you want to die.