Returning home.

[ofthefamily]

It's quiet in the Cullen household when Carlisle returns home, mind reeling from his conversation in the bar.

Edward, are you home?

Beyond that call, Carlisle draws a mental curtain over his thoughts. It won't last for long, but it has to last long enough.

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[themidnightson]

It's easiest to tell when his family is doing it.

When they become the cacophony instead of the lull that soothes his thoughts, both unmissable and unfocused upon. When they pull upon noise to drown themselves out, the one act carnival trick with many languages, and can not help calling his attention to them even more precisely with their cloaks.



But they have the right. He doesn't even need to remind himself.

"Downstairs, in the garage." Going through a pile of cd cases.