Alice followed hez, muttering random poems and verses, calming down a bit. Although the main reason she followed hez was to see the artifact in hopes of being able to find her own, she still wanted to make sure she was safe. It had been a while since she had seen the cleansing of an artifact anyhow. Suddenly a strangler, one of the meat-like-zombie-things, showed up swinging a giant kitchen knife at hez. Alice dashed in front of hez and parried it with a flick and split the creature in two with her own blade. "... of with your head..." she muttered absentmindedly.