"It already made sense without that."

There's a flick of annoyance in it.




Especially since there was no way he'd run into Carlisle then. And what Edward had of either Alice or Carlisle's experiences with himself were what they gave him.

If Carlisle's memory was evolving in a retrospect capacity of the situation around it's preconceived notions, it was at the very least still his own, still his known self, something he could look at and redefine.