[The cottage isn't that big, Kate. Use your eyes for something other than your work and looking at Ignis for a change.
Albeit belatedly, Carlisle feels the guilt from their last conversations still heavy on him, and realizes this might be an opportunity if he can manage to control his temper. What had Lance said? That perhaps she is too dense to realize why it is that her behavior is troubling? Well, obviously not with that exact wording, but the point remains the same: Kate is, perhaps, blissfully unaware of just how it is she comes across when she goes running into danger, and shouldn't be judged so harshly until Carlisle himself has made it perfectly clear how he feels about that. That last part is difficult terrain all by itself.
He starts slow. Step by step, he reminds himself.]
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and looking at Ignisfor a change.Albeit belatedly, Carlisle feels the guilt from their last conversations still heavy on him, and realizes this might be an opportunity if he can manage to control his temper. What had Lance said? That perhaps she is too dense to realize why it is that her behavior is troubling? Well, obviously not with that exact wording, but the point remains the same: Kate is, perhaps, blissfully unaware of just how it is she comes across when she goes running into danger, and shouldn't be judged so harshly until Carlisle himself has made it perfectly clear how he feels about that. That last part is difficult terrain all by itself.
He starts slow. Step by step, he reminds himself.]
Has the storm outside grown that intolerable?