Talk:Athenodora/@comment-70.197.135.103-20130401152833/@comment-7600752-20131210003556

Could it be possible that after presumably thousands of years of inactivity, the wives just didn't know how to react? Maybe the inactive lifestyle that they led could lead them to loose some of their vampiric insincts?

I think you could be right about that. The Wives never had to fight....they just stayed in their tower and drank the humans who were given to them. The same goes with Jane. Jane has never had to fight. Yes, I'm sure that she could be vicious with humans and could prowl and hunt. Delight in the torture as her venom gave them the pain of being burned alive. But Jane would never hold up against another vampire unless she used her powers. And Jane ALWAYS did use her powers. But she couldn't use them in BD2 because of Bella's sheild. That's why Jane did'n't try to fight in the movie...and just tried to run away. Jane, like the wives, led a pampered life. They didin't even have to hunt because their human prey was brought to them by the Volturi.