"Shimmering?" Bella asked, confused for a second until she looked at her own arm and laughed a little. "Oh, you mean the sparkling thing? No, no magic. And I'm not a big fan of glitter, either. It's just something I do, or my skin does, when the sun hits it. All the vampires where I come from do this, but none of the others I've met do. Then again, most of them can't go into the sun at all, so there's that."

She zipped out of the beam's path and into full shade. "Sorry. I know it can be a little weird."