Alex scratched at the back of his head and looked away nervously, "W-well, I'm n-not... exactly... s-stable..."

It might not happen too often since he got away from both his father and the labs, but that he dissociated meant that he couldn't be that stable. "B-but I didn't g-give in. W-we were fighting back. Q-quietly, but still, we were managing t-to get information and used th-that information t-ta get more.

"We g-got super p-powers. I c-can see negative emotions, b-but I also need t-ta eat 'em ta l-live. Th-there's also other powers, th-that are a bit m-more complex, and different for e-each Shadow Eater."