In Which We Get Scary Stories II
Bella and Jacob go to La Push and hang out at a bonfire with the rest of the Werewolf Nation: Billy, Paul, Embry, Quil, Emily, Sam, Sue, Jared, Leah, Seth and so forth.
Billy tells the history of the Quileute Tribe: at one point they were spirit walkers, essentially leaving their bodies and walking around like ghosts. Then an evil Quileute took over the body of the chief while they were in spirit form and trapped him as a ghost. Eventually, the chief had to take up residence inside a wolf to return to the real world and save his tribe from the false chief. This led to the his offspring becoming Werewolves. Later, the tribe would meed Vampires and fight them, learning ways to destroy them in combat. Later still, they'd meet the Cullens and figure out the whole truce thing.
Yeah, it's longer than that, but you can buy the book if you want to read it. This has almost nothing whatsoever to do with the current plot and is just filling in the gaps in the last Scary Stories chapter. The lone connection to the present was the story of the "third wife", who cuts herself during a werewolf v. vampire battle to distract the vampire. So that's foreshadowing. Get it? Bella is going to cut herself. In about... 13 chapters, by my calculations. Yeesh, what are we doing for 13 more chapters?
Jacob takes Bella home. Edward is waiting. She falls asleep and has nightmares. He's reading Wuthering Heights.
SumUp A-
Aside from this ongoing lack of plot progression, this chapter holds up. The story is interesting and well written, the foreshadowing is a little obvious, but it at least gives Bella a chance to DO SOMETHING in the final chapters other than stand around while things fight over her. She will, of course, survive, unlike the third wife who snuffed it in her overzealous bloodletting.
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