It'd be sadder yet if he said he learned it for Carlisle.


"It would have been impossible not to learn." Edward says, sticking to leaning on the door, and being far more rational than he should. And it's goading to tell something that is only half a truth when he's talking about lying.

But, for today, he takes the safer route of two.
Even if the one is in direct relation to the other, too.

"There's so much." He raised two fingers toward a temple.
So many people. So many thoughts. So much truth. Everywhere.