[Of course Alice is second-guessing herself. This is insane. She's insane.] I dropped all my extra guesses on my way here. I would've taken a second to pick them back up, but I'm pretty sure the demons would've chomped my arm off if I gave them that chance. [But thinking about any of that will just get her killed.]

[Alice wipes away the blood on her cheek, then scoffs.] Do me a favor and shoot me if I spout another lame line like that. I'm a high school runaway, I shouldn't be trying to sound cool in front of a real professional.

[Despite what she says, Shunya can see ice-cold determination in Alice's eyes as she steps back into the hospital to lead him to the basement stairs; the kind of steel that can only be tempered through hard-won experience.]