"I know you can fight well. I know that there is a girl who's important to you in some way, though she is dead. I know you usually don't speak like this."

Alice wonders if any of that makes any sense to the girl at all. Probably not. But surely - surely - she must be wondering why she can fight so well here, especially if this place didn't give her some sort of knife superpower.

"I know you, because we were together on a train." Alice spreads her arms, as if to show-- "And that is why I won't attack you. I have a rather fond spot for you, even if you may not remember me."