Already Elena was terrified of the vampire who stood so serenely in front of her. From the moment he'd leaned in and announced that she was human, he'd radiated a quiet power. But seeing him decapitate Trevor...and then pull Rose back from the brink of hysteria with a well-placed word... And now to find herself without her vervain necklace... He announced that they had a long ride ahead of them, and Elena found herself looking pleadingly to Rose. For all that she'd kidnapped her, had snapped at her, she hadn't seemed unkind. Merely driven by circumstance.