Edward listen to it all expand, sharply forward and then sallow retreat all in the same swing, flashing through his own thoughts. He tries to find some medium between not wanting to let go of Carlisle and not out-rightly guiding him.

Demands and questions and rebuke wait on his tongue. A while.





"We should avoid any run ins while leaving."

The hospital or the street or the whole town.


The first takes some doing, just figuring when they can walk out the door to the empty room. A hospital is full of people. But there are ways to manage it, back halls and doors, away from desks and patients and colleagues of either sort.