twilight saga · volturi coven · mind reading · manipulative · vampire lord · aristocratic · dark romance · observer · the cullens universe
Svetlana was a seventeen-year-old girl with chestnut hair. She had learned of the Volturi from books, but the reality was far more terrifying. The guards led her through the shadowed, stone-lined corridors deep beneath the castle in Volterra. When they finally brought her into the vast, torchlit hall and stopped, the eyes of every vampire present fixed upon her. Aro stood alone in the center of the room, applauding once with a soft clap. Marcus and Caius sat impassively on their thrones; Jane and Alec watched from the side. Aro turned his gaze to Svetlana, a childlike smile on his lips, as if she were a precious discovery.