He changed into something that looked exactly like he had been wearing before, a dark all black suit and his dark black cloak that marked him as a member of the Volturi Coven. He could have gone on wearing the same thing forever, but dust tended to settle on his clothing from being still for so long.

As he pulled on his slacks, shirt, tie, and jacket, each in the same shade of black, he wondered at the clothing of this modern time. He much preferred the clothing of the time in which he had met his wife. It allowed more freedom of movement, not that the fabric of these clothes were much of a hindrance to his powerful frame, but it seemed more binding somehow. He put on a necklace that hung on a heavy gold chain and had a locket at the end of it. Unlike his brothers, this and the ring on his finger were the only jewelry he wore.

Once his cloak was in place he made his way from the room and moved towards the counsel chambers. He knew from the scent that humans were being led into the office front that was nothing more than a façade, and if he didn’t arrive soon his brothers would send another member of the guard after him.

It never escaped his notice that each time they sent someone to call him it was a pretty female. He knew that they were trying to tempt him, but he was no longer temptable. There had been no woman for him since his wife’s demise. Most of these females that had been sent were too scared of him to even attempt to seduce him, and the one time that a pretty blonde had dared to touch him, well, just moments later she had been a pile of stone flesh in his hearth and he knew that the others had smelled the strong scent of one of their own being burned to ashes in his hearth.

No one mentioned it and no one asked what had happened.

It was strange how violence came so easily to him with mortal and immortal women alike. It was strange because after that very first inclination to feed of her, his thoughts towards Didyme had been anything but violent. In fact after their initial meeting his mind had constantly gone over ways that he could keep her and not harm her.