*Alice isn't watching Sirius, so she doesn't see how he starts. It's not the violence of the threat that unnerves him; its how closely it plays to who and what Alice is. He shifts, silently, from one foot to the other, and then settles back against the wall. Alice knows what she's doing. He knows that.

As for Kenniwick, he begins to squirm in earnest, shaking his head like a resistant child.*