[Alex just chuckles when he says that it's reassuring, but it's kindly a little mirror of the huffy laugh that Strand makes just for her. She's never heard him make it with anyone else and has considered it 'her laugh' for a very long time now. But there's a sadness in it, because she can't imagine ever being told that he doesn't have a choice in anything. Even sadder still, Alex knows that he's right and his choices had always been stripped away. His father, Coralee, even Alex herself to some extend had done it.

But he changes the subject before she can say anything about it, and instead she just frowns for a moment, taking a bite of the pizza herself.]

I don't even remember it, honestly. I mean, I know it happened of course but I don't remember anything about it. I'm sure you were fine though, Richard.