[She doesn't need to explain Carlisle's hesitance to retreat to the temple safe zones despite his fearful nature--both because Glacius is close enough to him to know of his religious beliefs, but also because he explained himself to the alien way back when the fog rolled in and the city went to hell and back. And unlike Shadow, the otherworldly being had respected the clergyman's agency; though Glacius stayed out with the human in the thick of it all for some time, in the end Carlisle had ultimately deferred to him, and they had retreated temporarily until things started getting back to something approaching normal.

That's how the situation should have been handled, not this treachery. The very fact that Shadow subjected Carlisle to such abuse despite being guilty of the very thing he was so angry about causes a deep disgust to roil about in the alien's guts.] Good--that is absolutely the right response in this scenario. Shadow doesn't have the right to ask anything of my partner after what he's done! Such selfishness and hypocrisy. Now Carlisle is the only one suffering guilt--when he has only wanted to set things right since--while Shadow goes on to feel perfectly justified despite his hand of all of this is not right!

I wish I could convince Carlisle to stop wasting his breath on the cur--and yet still he clings to whatever scrap of friendship they had before Shadow forefeited his right to it.