There was a nod and a smile when he mentioned Breq, because Alex definitely had met her a few times even if she didn't know the other woman well. They were friendly but not friends which meant that Alex would probably feel less bad about bringing the questions about what happened to her than she would be if she mentioned them to Peter.

So, she was going to focus on what her friend was saying about other things rather than robots. Oh, and also wiggling her nose up at that, because jesus christ the next thing on that list had better not be demons ever. "I guess I'd never thought of it that way, that those things got dragged into the portal like we did. They just end up elsewhere." Alex has never been outside the walls, because while she's a reporter, she's not a fighter and she has no intention of getting eaten by one of those eldritch horrors. "I do know an author would be very glad to hear that the members of the eldritch club are somewhere out in the universe."