"The dragons in my world possess the same capacity for thought and speech as humans." Not to mention the ones who passed as humans, escaping the Covenant's purge by hiding in plain sight. It was something he very much wanted to ask the blonde woman with the dragon companion about but thought better of bothering her about beyond studying the creature from a respectful distance.

"Daenerys is the name of the woman here with the dragon, right? I take it they're from your world, then?"

For as much as Alex has very much absorbed his family's approach to group survival, he hasn't exactly been a social butterfly while going about it. Connecting who knows who from their home worlds or stays in other dimensions has been a bit of an ongoing learning experience for him.