For a moment, Alex just blinks at Simon. Someone having too many eyes isn't hard to piece out considering how Murmur had been when she'd asked him for help when she was having trouble sleeping here. What he did for her had kept the better part of her nightmares away until Alex had vanished for that month to Xanadu. Now, however, it wasn't working as well but Alex is fairly certain it's because of the nightmares that she's unconsciously choosing to bring in: basically the things that have long dogged her reality that have been all kicked up once more thanks to Strand and Simon himself being aboard.

Alex also remembers the how and the whys and the reasons that Fred Barnes had called the show: Simon attacking Trent. It had been in the back of her mind that the reasons that Simon was attacking Trent was because he'd been praying but that's not something that she'd considered here. Feeling foolish because of it, Alex just frowns for a long moment as she considers. "Is there something that I can ask him to do that doesn't hurt you, Simon? I don't think that he would want to hurt you if he could avoid it." But that's not all of course, considering their conversation. "How is Murmur stopping Strand from blocking his abilities, Simon?"