Alex doesn’t look away from the state. Instead she just returns it, her eyes fixated on his as she does so. However she does nod in response to his statement and she just agrees silently. But there’s nothing to be done about it, that much is for certain. Alex being Alex has already asked around and she knows that people have been here for years. Whatever Richard was too decide on the morning, the idea of being here for years did worry her.

Even if she didn’t want to admit that it did. But of course it did.

But Alex doesn’t want to think about that so instead she focuses on something else. “When you talked to me in Turkey, you said your appearance would frighten me. You look fine so what do you mean?”