The courier's eye twitched in irritation as Girien, badly, tried to play it off as completely unplanned.<span style="font-style: italic">'Bullshit.'</span>Barely wincing at the shoulder pat that most people would fall over from, he aimed a glare at Girien that made everyone watching the exchange question his sanity for aiming it at the King of the Wasteland. It wasn't hard for him to recognize the red-headed giant's words about Garret paying for both the delivery and his drinks as the blatant bribery attempt that it was. Before Alex got a chance to comment however, the King left, giving a parting comment. "That's not obvious at all," he muttered sarcastically. Exhaling to calm his growing irritation, he turned towards Garret. "Well, you heard him. Pay up," he said bluntly, not in the mood to best around the bush.<br/>Honestly, right now he just wanted to get paid, and then get some drinks. Hopefully he'll get enough peace to forget about Girien having some kind of plan that he is obviously bad at hiding the fact he had one... And now he feels the sudden urge to punch himself in the face, which tells him he just jinxed himself.<span style="font-style: italic">'It's the little things that makes this job so annoying sometimes,'</span>he thought with a mental sigh.