Chapter Twenty-one: The hunt is on.

Edward and Bella go hunting. Let's count all the things that Bella is good at!

1. Bella is super graceful, even for a vampire.
2. Bella is extremely good at jumping over rivers on her first try.
3. Bella is great at running at sparklepire speed without hitting trees.
4. Bella is good at hearing and smelling elk from far away.
5. Bella is better than any other sparklepire ever at not eating people (she smells some, and runs at them, but then freaks out and stops).

Actually, this last one event makes Edward laugh, because it's so preposterous that a newborn vampire could feel bad about thinking about eating a human. Which brings us to...


6. Bella is great at ignoring the awful thirst for blood in her throat.
7. Bella is good at killing mountain lions and drinking all their blood.
   
8. Bella is really hot. Edward mentions this a lot, especially after the mountain lion tears up her dress a bit.

So yeah, that's pretty much the chapter in a nutshell. I'm sure you wanted to read more, but it's all about how awesome Bella is at everything.

At the end of the chapter, Edward is all over Bella, mostly because there isn't very much dress left after the hunting was over. But what Bella wants to do -- just a tiny bit more than having vampire sex in the woods -- is see Renesmee. Who is with Jacob, which seems a little strange to Bella, though her super-fast vampire mind hasn't come up with any theories yet. As you'll see over the rest of this book, for minds that are supposed to work unbelievably fast, it takes a very long time for vampires to figure things out.