The way nothing mortal did. Edges burning, but still.
It was a hallow ground, what she asked for. One whose secrets he'd kept for Carlisle even before and from his (their) own family members where it came the specifics. The absolutes. The images. The truths of certain lengths. Yet now it had contorted to life before his eyes.
He weighed Melaka Fray in the same balance of now twisted scales.
And looked down, away from that face and those eyes, the length of too many ephemeral things even as he clung to the thoughts of the man not too far away. "It's him, but it's not. From before now."
Edward looked to one side. "A very long time before."
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Edward stared at her too long, too still.
The way nothing mortal did. Edges burning, but still.
It was a hallow ground, what she asked for. One whose secrets he'd kept for Carlisle even before and from his (their) own family members where it came the specifics. The absolutes. The images. The truths of certain lengths. Yet now it had contorted to life before his eyes.
He weighed Melaka Fray in the same balance of now twisted scales.
And looked down, away from that face and those eyes, the length of too many ephemeral things even as he clung to the thoughts of the man not too far away. "It's him, but it's not. From before now."
Edward looked to one side. "A very long time before."