[He could use that tone all he wanted to, but the thing about seeing someone in person was that you couldn't hang up on them with that oh so Simon way of just saying 'goodbye Alex.' Stepping closer to him, Alex had a very familiar look. Well, it may not be familiar to Simon as much as it was to someone like Richard or to other people here, but it was definitely the look of Alex having caught the edge of something, and she was going to pull at the string as hard as she could.]

For me? What are you talking about? I'm not important in this. I did my bit with the whole primer thing. And playing the Mysterium.

[After all, it wasn't her people that had been kidnapped by Thomas Warren, despite Richard's desperate sort of comments after she'd returned from Turkey about her being at the center of this with him.]