Edward Cullen

Edward has the ability to read minds.

Appearance
Edward Cullen has bronze hair and eyes that change color with his thirst. During his rebellion, they were crimson, but now that he is back to his animal diet, they are golden. They turn black when he is thirsty.

Drowning
Drowning is written from Edward’s point of view, starting from the day that he met Celeste.

Edward met Celeste while he was on a hunting trip with Emmett. Her eyes are tinted with red, but hints of gold are clear in them.

"The girl’s thoughts were in a chaotic jumble, like a newborn’s would be. I could tell her main mission, though: run or kill. She seemed to be leaning on the running side."

~Edward on Celeste’s thoughts

Edward explains that Celeste has no idea what she is, which one part of her large vampire brain is focusing on finding the answer to. Emmett suggests killing the newborn, but Edward refuses, and so he later runs off at the scent of a bear. Edward stays, explaining vampire life to her. Her thoughts are full of gratefulness for this, because she had nobody else to talk to about her strange new life.

Celeste later joins the Cullens, going to Forks High School after a few weeks of drinking only animal blood. The first day is hard for her, and she has trouble controlling her yearning for blood. Edward decided to speak for her, gathering gossip in both spoken and unspoken words of her being a mute. Celeste manages to make it to lunch before Alice Cullen suggests that she leaves. When Celeste asks why, Alice tells her that she saw Celeste slaughtering the whole school. Alice is running through the vision in her mind again, and it blurs, but the picture is still clear. Edward sees Celeste killing the innocent people in the cafeteria before the image disappears when Celeste stands, agreeing to spend the rest of the day in Edward’s silver Volvo.

Edward later takes her on a hunting trip, and she smells a group of hikers when she is searching for deer. Since she is not yet strong enough to resist the smell of human blood, she ends up killing the group of three. Edward is disappointed with her, but lets it slide when she sees his disappointment and her thoughts go into a knot.

"She could see the disappointment in my eyes, and her thoughts ran through things to say, ways to apologize, but no words could express how she felt. She stayed silent, her thoughts drifting to the heartbeat of a rabbit."

~Edward listening to Celeste’s thoughts about his disappointment