"Richard." His name was a soft sigh, and she just watched him for a minute, her eyes on his with a frown. "Literally just being here is a risk. I know you don't believe it but there's monsters and everything here, never mind just the simple act of walking outside could end with me falling down the stairs and snapping my neck. I can't not live on the off chance that something could happen to me."

For a moment, Alex just looks down, and she frowns broadly, considering telling him about how concerned Dr. Frankenstein was with her lack of sleep, and how bad that could be, but right now didn't seem the point. There were other things to worry about than what could happen. "I don't know how I could live with myself if there was something that I could have done to help save someone I love and I didn't." Her other hand moved to his face, touching it gently because while there were other people that she cared about here, there was only one that she was pretty sure she couldn't live without.