[Alex is leafing through the book, nodding, sighing, and switching the phone from shoulder to shoulder. Max hangs in the door of the lair making kissy faces--she stops to give him the stink-eye before nearly dropping the phone.]

Oh, she is NOT using Hypno-Pulses on my boyfriend--I swear I will murder her so hard she will have never been born.

[Overprotective girlfriend much? She's waffling between anger and worry--doing this over the phone is really driving her nuts. She's processing what he's saying. She's slightly calmer, but still on edge.]

Are you able to move? You were really hurting the first time I...

Okay, where are you? I could just pop in.