For a moment, Alex just considers that and him possibly being able to find it. There's a little thought in her head, Richard when she'd first heard about the Horn. ' Believe me. I've had just about enough of the Horn of Tiamat to last me a lifetime. But it looks like it's back.' Jesus, she can only imagine how much Strand's not going to want to know how important it is. But Alex isn't very inclined to worry about his feelings right now--Strand can listen or not, but she's not ever going to be able to stop wanting to know these things about all of this.

So, Alex just asks: "did Thomas Warren find it at the dig in Hillah, Iraq like Strand suspected that he had?" There were a few (more than a few) things that Alex regrets not asking Thomas Warren when she and Strand had met with him following Coralee and one of them definitely had been that. Another of course had been if he really was the Advocate. But given the way that Strand had wanted to leave (and Alex doesn't blame him for that, she'd have wanted to do the same thing if their roles were reversed) they'd not had the chance and Alex doesn't think that they're likely to get it again considering everything that Coralee had told Strand about not doing it.

Do as I say and not as I do indeed, Richard.

"Where has it been this whole time? Does it have to do with Strand being the Mantle of the Dragon or something?"