Something, and Edward knew that Alexander was hurt, but then there was a new person with color and not walking but in the air and smiling and so strange that Pride stood without the care he normally had, and nearly toppled over.

Eyes wide with intrigue, he stepped closer and peered around the new person. No one could do anything like that, whom he'd seen before, and such strange, strange...

"Hello," he parroted, the same inflection NiGHTS had given full in his normally-flat voice.