This is not the first time someone has looked at him this way. Or the tenth. He just has that effect on people. Hell, sometimes even he can't believe the shit that comes out of his own mouth.

"Alex? That name supposed to mean something to me?" She might not want to hear it but Crichton is the master of disappointing people.

Wait. Brother? Is that who he is? But, hold on, she thinks her brother put her in... whatever the hell this is?

Now she's getting the same look of puzzlement back. "Whoa, whoa. No one is messing with my grey matter!" He seems awfully distressed at that thought.

"J-just..just slow down a minute. Humans where I come from don't leave Earth. Not unless it's a short trip with a lot of years of training beforehand."