Alastair twitched a bit at the subtle sound, it was annoying. But he didn't connect it to anything - he didn't know how Cavil's power worked, at all, and at the moment was too rattled to recall anything Kiryu might have hinted about it.

His eyes were on the room behind Cavil, though. He murmured under his breath, so only Stark could hear, "Saitou's in there. I need to see if he's all right."