"You do know, Richard," Alex begins with a smirk and her brow up towards her hair again. "Most people do talk to me. I can only think of a handful or so people who have been put off by me to require eleven calls. Even then, they normally come around." Cops, medical professionals, politicians, they all seemed to talk to Alex. When she wasn't being an idiot, she was actually good at her job. And there was the added point that while Nic was her producer on The Black Tapes, she was his on Tanis, so she did all the things that he did too.

The outliers for her were Strand himself, Warren, the Torres family after Sebastian was returned (and who could blame them for that?!) and a handful of other shady people who had their own things going on. Most people didn't, and Alex was likable and easy to talk to, so she thought she'd be able to get somewhere. But while she's talking to him, her phone pings and Alex just frowns at it when her eyes cast downward. Alex wouldn't be Alex if she's not multitasking.