"She keeps telling me all these cruel things... I can't keep listening to her... Please tell me this isn't real, Alex!"
"She keeps telling me I'm perfect... I'm such a little flame... She keeps using me..."
"Please don't let me fall asleep, Alex... I don't want to go back there!"
Alexander took a slow breath, allowing the ashen air to fill his lungs before a steady exhale. Steadied by the breath, he looked back to Isabel. She?, yet another voice. He was more than willing to bet that each of them were experiencing some voice in their head. And considering those voices appeared at the time of the artifacts, they had to be linked. Gazing out over the carnage that the others wrought amongst the demon masses, Alex's brow furrowed. Seven artifacts, seven voices... Almost there..What are we? This landscape, the demons.. This must be hell. "The sins." The breath whispered from him as he watched Seb's wrath induced transformation into destruction, following in the devastation of Jake. Even Phil went insane, finally able to unleash a rampage of nerd induced angst upon their foes. "Isabel, You're not going to fall asleep. You own the voice, it obviously needs you to exist, don't forget that", He kept his voice level as he watched Louise become a towering monster of gluttonous indulgence. Although he was pleased that his assumptions were correct, it wasn't any more pleasant to watch and for the moment he turned Isabel's head towards his chest and away from it. Better she work herself out for a moment before having to deal with the others.
"Come on, I'll let you down."
Louise held out her colossal hand, allowing Alexander with Isabel in arms, to walk aboard. From his vantage point, he watched as the others tore the numbers of the horde down to a spattering and it was clear it would soon be over. But what of his friends? Seb especially looked as if he would never stop. He had to bring his friends back together, they needed to sort through this. If they had embodied the sins, things were only going to get more difficult from here. Alex had to withhold himself from trying to straighten the creases in his vest that carrying Isabel had caused lest he drop her completely. You will help me until things are settled, and then we will discus., he forced the words forming in his mind to be authoritative but if they shook the presence deep in his subconscious, it didn't show it. You will certainly be interesting came the the self assured reply as he was granted a spike of power. It etched violet flecks around his iris, the veins of his face and neck tinting with the same coloured energy before his voice came out as a commanding boom. The sound carried far enough for even the enraged Seb to hear whilst retaining a spoken tone.
"It's done. They've been destroyed; Sebastion, Jake, Phil. Be calm, steady. Come back.". He allowed the words to reverberate through the remnants of the fight, keeping them steady as a grounding point to bring the others back. They needed to regroup, who knows what changes the others had within their psyche and beyond their superhuman abilities. They needed a way out of this. He glanced up to Louise, still standing in her palm. "Full, Kirby?", despite the situation he simply couldn't help the remark, the corner of his mouse twisting just slightly into a smirk.