Well, you said you're imperceptible to them, correct? But I'm not so sure. That last batch was definitely responding to you in some way.
[ And he's got a hypothesis: that Carlisle has some sort of unconscious influence over them, and further, that it's tied to his emotional state. Actually divulging that hypothesis at this point, though, would taint the experiment. On the plus side, this is a much more controlled setting: a single zombie, immobilized, and they've already eliminated whatever others would fall within his sphere of influence. They'll have no better opportunity to try this.
The simplest test: nothing more than replicating a previous observation. Which, in layman's terms, means he'll need to provoke Carlisle again. And he knows exactly what'll do it. ]
I could be wrong, but I assume it's got something to do with your undead state.
[ Which is part of his hypothesis, true, but also possibly the least diplomatic way he could have worded it. ]
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[ And he's got a hypothesis: that Carlisle has some sort of unconscious influence over them, and further, that it's tied to his emotional state. Actually divulging that hypothesis at this point, though, would taint the experiment. On the plus side, this is a much more controlled setting: a single zombie, immobilized, and they've already eliminated whatever others would fall within his sphere of influence. They'll have no better opportunity to try this.
The simplest test: nothing more than replicating a previous observation. Which, in layman's terms, means he'll need to provoke Carlisle again. And he knows exactly what'll do it. ]
I could be wrong, but I assume it's got something to do with your undead state.
[ Which is part of his hypothesis, true, but also possibly the least diplomatic way he could have worded it. ]