For a moment Alex just frowns and the entire Simon being completely impossible thing is gone in the favor of answering his questions about Xanadu and what life was like for her in the month that she had lived through it. Wrapping her hands around the cup of coffee and savoring it’s familiar warmth, Alex stares into the oil slick sheen on the top of the cup as if it were tea leaves and she could somehow manage to tease out what Strand’s words and tones meant.

Alex had learned early on in their working relationship how jealous Richard could be (Tannis Braun and Sexy James Bond spring to mind immediately) and it’s something that he’s already shown here when she was talking about Jon. Alex finds herself speaking to him like she would have on the show after they’d fought: very carefully.

“Yeah. It was part of the set up to torment us. It’s very much the hell is other people thing. So of course I was paired with a demon, even if he wasn’t so bad honestly. And no he wasn’t the one who killed me: that was all robots.”