[She lets it hit, and does not move. If Rei looks to the woman's feet however, it is as if the shadows themselves are rooting them there.]

I don't think you're anything. I don't think you are controlled by anything, because you don't need those things to do it to yourself, [she whispers knowingly, gently moving to push Alexis' fist away from where it drove against her cheek. And maybe the words are too soft for Rei to hear in the meantime, maybe not.

But Alexis' sharp hearing will pick it up easily.]

I don't know who you are.

But no one ever will, if you refuse to be truthful to yourself, and to others. Including you.