What sort of person is Embry? You tell us that his identical twin was his exact opposite, but not any of Embry or his twin's personality traits.

What sort of person am I? How would I know? Shawn's gone.

Now our parents are looking at me like they wish I could fill the hole. Or maybe like their afraid I won't speak anymore now that he's gone. And maybe I won't. Why should I? Everyone's always thought I was too quiet. Nice maybe but too quiet to really be a twin to someone like Shawn. Like our twinness didn't run deeply enough. Now, without Shawn?

We were not two halves of a whole. He was everything and I was happy to be his shadow. What anchors me now?

I feel like I'm losing my mind. And the shadows I've been seeing... I've seen them creeping in the side of my vision and I swear I've even heard them. They say Shawn's not gone. That I can get him back.

And then there's her. I saw her on the street and I don't know how but I knew what she was. And that's why I had to take her. She swears she can't bring Shawn back. But she's an angel. And the shadows told me she can.