Alice opens her mouth to answer her brother, but all that comes out is a gasp. She stiffens, her hand tightening around Edward's, and she leans against her husband.

The vision is blurry and quick: Carlisle returning to Volterra and something happening and then...nothing happening. His future -- and theirs, because they are so connected to their father's outcome -- drops out, disappears.

Alice winces, stiffening a little more.