"Thank you," Bella responded automatically, then stilled her body before the chill along her spine showed visibly. She kept her face as blank as she could, through she wasn't too sure how well she did on that one. "It's against our laws to turn children, anyone found having made an immortal child is killed outright. Where I come from, there was something of an epidemic of them in the middle ages and whole covens were destroyed."

It was still a little too close, a little too recent, for her not to feel the near-loss of her daughter and everything that went along with it.