Edward nodded to the first, a simple, smooth movement.
After nearly two centuries. After being desperate and selfish enough to make Edward, to put up with all his invasiveness and prying and not leaving. After Esme, and Rosalie, and Emmett. Alice and Jasper. After they managed to tear down the walls that Volterra cut all but indelibly into his center.
It got better.
"I don't know that we can," Edward said, thinking about the proofs that had poured from River's mind. The possibilities and potentialities. The facts that showed, on other faces and other minds, it could be twisted worse.
Especially since Mel had just reminded him of how much better now was compared. And now was in part due to all of this, this then period. It did not make it better...but it scorching burn changed its level of how much it was massacring his mind.
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After nearly two centuries. After being desperate and selfish enough to make Edward, to put up with all his invasiveness and prying and not leaving. After Esme, and Rosalie, and Emmett. Alice and Jasper. After they managed to tear down the walls that Volterra cut all but indelibly into his center.
It got better.
"I don't know that we can," Edward said, thinking about the proofs that had poured from River's mind. The possibilities and potentialities. The facts that showed, on other faces and other minds, it could be twisted worse.
Especially since Mel had just reminded him of how much better now was compared. And now was in part due to all of this, this then period. It did not make it better...but it scorching burn changed its level of how much it was massacring his mind.