It's all in circles and loops anyway. He's calmer. Quieter. As much as Carlisle mind ever is or can be for him. But it's different from the tension of the last visits, the circumstances of them. There is no need for that kind of panic, that division, that holding.

It's good for Carlisle.

If the only parallel thought it brings up is that Carlisle would need him less.
But wasn't that a foregone conclusions, given Carlisle's future and Edward's past?


Somehow still it's a sore thought. Again. Differently, but again. He manages pleasant, at the foreground to the precursor of one of the people he learned it for.

"Where will you go in America? Near another school?"