[He comes back to this after Al has told him he wasn't the one who found the card, and his first reaction is to try to reply.

It would have been nothing, then, to genuinely smile and point out that Enoch is doing the same thing - with the rules of his world, and that if he denied the supernatural he would be the one ignoring evidence like a "dogmatic moron".

But now is not then. Now, he is weaker, vulnerable. Something has changed, and the insult that should mean nothing cuts too deep, and the invisible hand on his throat presses just a little in warning.]

I think I've told you why this is flawed before. If not me, someone else.

Alphonse wasn't the one. I'll keep looking.