“You don’t know them,” I whispered. “I know them better than you think, Bella. I was here the last time.” “The last time?” “We started crossing paths with the wolves about seventy years ago.… We had just settled near Hoquiam. That was before Alice and Jasper were with us. We outnumbered them, but that wouldn’t have stopped it from turning into a fight if not for Carlisle. He managed to convince Ephraim Black that coexisting was possible, and eventually we made the truce.”
