Even if you could seal the wound, I am barely alive.
[As much as it pains him to say it aloud, he has known it for some time, and tried to accept his slow demise. Much worse is how it affects those around him. Perhaps that is the reason twice-cursed are discouraged from forming relationships with others, often ostracized by society at large. Carlisle can't say he blames anyone for that, no matter how embittered he may truly be about it.]
That is why Kate wanted to make a phylactery. She thought that, by storing what is left of me in some external vessel, it might prevent some degree of what is to come.
[And even Kate doesn't know the full extent of it.]
no subject
[As much as it pains him to say it aloud, he has known it for some time, and tried to accept his slow demise. Much worse is how it affects those around him. Perhaps that is the reason twice-cursed are discouraged from forming relationships with others, often ostracized by society at large. Carlisle can't say he blames anyone for that, no matter how embittered he may truly be about it.]
That is why Kate wanted to make a phylactery. She thought that, by storing what is left of me in some external vessel, it might prevent some degree of what is to come.
[And even Kate doesn't know the full extent of it.]