"You're forgetting the calls to your publisher and the department chairs at the university, actually. I lost count of how many I made then." She's trying to keep the mood light, both in that and not mentioning how many times she'd called him when he'd disappeared, and with the other information. He was definitely going to blame her for a virus that had magic involved with it in any way.

But Alex doesn't lie to him, and she's being better about avoiding the truth so she just frowns and shows him the conversation she's having with Victor. "Infection might be a moot point, considering everything. And I mean, I'm around people often enough that I could have come into contact with someone who had it and didn't know it. Maybe we should be quarentining you somewhere or something." As if they hadn't been together for hours already.