[Topher's entire brain goes into a slight haze of wordless panic and then flatlines. Again. Until all he's doing is replaying the image of being stabbed with a screwdriver over and over again. Normal people would think to run from that, but who hasn't had a few murderous thoughts about people they love every now and then, right? He threatened to throw Ivy out a window once...

...He didn't actually mean it, but... It did happen. And now that memory is there for Bennett to see. He'd be more concerned about that, except screwdriver.]

Maybe reasonable was a little bit too strong, but, hey, we might well be close to the psychotic break... Also BTW, Alpha was a serial killer before I made him crazy.

...A would-be serial killer. [THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR SEMANTICS. Also it makes him feel better than Alpha was just baseline crazy.]