Alice's watches him come closer, then tilts her head when he's a metre away. "First, he might still have some resounding darkness buzzing about inside of him. Probably will fade. Second, he only cut my armor and a bit of skin. Plus I think I may have absorbed some of his energy. Last, the creature that took me was probably aiming to eat me after it killed you too, so it went after me after it lost, but I was in the next room, so Garuud bashed the wall down, scaring and making it run, leaving me alive." The lie came so simple that she thought that she may not have even said it. Beneath her helmet she smiles, knowing full well that anything more would through the lie of track. She matches Anaxis's stare with one of her own.