"I c-can't not eat them. It'd b-be like not eating food. N-normal food doesn't sustain me. B-but I c-can just n-not use the powers, i-if I'm c-careful an' stay f-far away from strong shadows."

Alex sighs, "I w-wish I'd never been put into that experiment, th-then I might've h-had a ch-chance at b-being sorta normal." But he had been put in the experiment, and he wasn't normal.