"I'll have you know, Richard Strand, that I can be both sets of things all at once." Which honestly, was probably a rather good description of her, as they'd talked about before. Alex was all of those things rolled into one, and she also knew that Richard loved that about her, even as maddening as she could be sometimes. He didn't need to say the words, it was just something that she inherently knew with their interactions, even when he was looking at her like he wanted to strangle her at times. Or when he was as huffy as he was now.

A huffiness that Alex was just going to chose to respond to with a bright smile and a little shake of her head. "Nope, you don't get to know until you're coming. That's not how being kidnapped works, Richard." Which is hilarious from a three time kidnapping victim to a two time kidnapping victim, but honestly, it was things like this that helped her deal with getting over that whole thing. Or at least as over it as Alex tended to get.