'Until you are ready' was exactly the sort of answer that Alex had hoped to avoid, and it made her groan once more. She burrowed her face in her hands for a moment, because well, Lizzie was right. She definitely felt like the walking dead, even more than she had when she wasn't sleeping and that sort of thing. Honestly, she'd thought that would have been the most tired that she could be, but this training was definitely proving her wrong on this point.

Well, at least it tired her out, she supposed. Alex was well aware of just how glad Richard was with that.

But Alex was going to ask a reasonable question, or at least what she considered a reasonable question. "Is it just possible that I'm too old for this? I mean, I am thirty-four." Even if Alex didn't look it all the time (or act it, let's be honest) her age was still there on her body and all of the dumb things that she did to it.