Alice's golden gaze narrowed at the slight to her brother. Yes, something had happened before she'd shown up, but Edward never would have done that willingly. "Well, you heard wrong," she replied shortly, her expression dismissive as she turned away from him.

Despite his pleasant tone, she was beginning to get irritated. Or, more with the fact that she still needed to talk to Edward to find out what was going on, what had happened before her arrival. It bothered her more than she was letting on, but then, not knowing something usually did. Warning, indeed. Who did he think he was?

"We're vegetarians," she joked dryly, little humor in her tone. "Usually when we get hungry, we hunt animals. And as I said, all vampires where I come from were once human."