They'll come back from that! Yeah, they'll be shaken up, but now they can maybe pick a better path.

You can't tell me nothing needed to change; you didn't see the cloud of darkness hanging over that place. That much needless worry about what is and isn't a sin just breeds that sort of thing.

[His darkness shifts a bit, becoming less overtly threatening and trying to move into more of a defensive position, shielding himself from whatever the hell Alcuin's trying to do here.]