When he gets up, Alex let out a sigh of her own, and she shifted to tuck her legs underneath her propping her chin in her hand as she considered the question. The answer to the question is written in her expression; of course she has a plan. Doesn't she always have a plan even if it sometimes (often) tends to be a bad plan?
"I'm not going to do anything dumb," she said quickly, an almost promise. Not quite, because the two of them had highly varied definitions of 'dumb' especially where the other one was concerned. "Don't worry, Richard, I'm not going to be out volunteering for random injections or being a nurse or anything like that. I'm going to do what I do best: research, both on stuff that the people who come through the portal may have brought in, or stuff that that the natives had. Dr. Frankenstein," the name carries a weight of familiarity with it, and she gestured towards her device, "seems to be implying that it was released rather than something that happened naturally. Maybe I can ask around about that. After all, people are more likely to talk to plucky reporters rather than perimeter guards."
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"I'm not going to do anything dumb," she said quickly, an almost promise. Not quite, because the two of them had highly varied definitions of 'dumb' especially where the other one was concerned. "Don't worry, Richard, I'm not going to be out volunteering for random injections or being a nurse or anything like that. I'm going to do what I do best: research, both on stuff that the people who come through the portal may have brought in, or stuff that that the natives had. Dr. Frankenstein," the name carries a weight of familiarity with it, and she gestured towards her device, "seems to be implying that it was released rather than something that happened naturally. Maybe I can ask around about that. After all, people are more likely to talk to plucky reporters rather than perimeter guards."