I am less brave, and more... fortunate to have someone so truly wonderful in my life. I don't know what I would do without him, nor what he will do without me.

[And that has been something that's been on Carlisle's mind a lot lately, especially as he considers more and more how little time his curse allows him. Will he even live long enough to escape Hadriel? And if he does, what then?

He doesn't know, but he trusts he and Glacius will find out, somehow. He has to believe that, lest he lose all hope in the future.]

But... despite that, I would not take it back. I have wondered if it would have been kinder to never damn him to such heartache, but he insists otherwise, and I refuse to strip him of that agency. I hope that one day, I will have the same breadth of understanding as him.