It is not good news at all, she can hear it again, skittering and getting closer. But Alice is here and she trusts Alice. Trusts her enough that she nods. "I will be being very still."

Incredibly still. Stillness is something she is good at. She takes a breath and clears her mind, entering the emptiness, banishing the worry and the thoughts and the feelings. She goes very still, almost impossibly so.

"I do be being ready."