[Alex follows him to the bathroom, and she frowns before filling him a glass of water. It feels like they're doing this a lot and every connection that they seem to have to that is the mention of Sodder.]

I get that you want to help! [Alex honestly thinks that even when he was being his most skeptical, and his most antagonistic it was because he wanted to help the people that were dealing with the sorts of things that he'd casually admitted that they were real.]

But clearly you can't help her. Not now, not like this. Clearly thinking about it is doing this. Cause and effect, Richard. So your choices are to keep trying and spend all of your time puking your guts out with a pounding headache or worse.

[Alex doesn't want to think about the worst. As a matter of fact, she tries not to think about the worst, which of course means that it's permeating through her brain and their link. She pictures him braindead, or something else as bad as a stroke only magically inclined in nature. This place has magic and they both know it. And it's clear that this aspect of it is bad for him.]

We'll figure it out then. But until then, I'm going to be me, Richard. And if you want me then you get all of me not just the pieces that you like!