Alex nodded, hearing out the younger woman's thought process as she described it. Yea, this was certainly not what most would consider normal, that was for sure. She seemed nervous, and he half sat, half leaned against the back of the seat in front of her, mainly so he wasn't just standing there all awkward like, arms crossing out of habit more than anything else. That usually seemed to alleviate nerves from other people he dealt with, so he just stuck with what he figured worked in the past. "I hear that, if I felt like it would have helped, I would be freaked ou and running for the doors. But, way I see it, folks are taking this in stride because they want to become whatever this will make us out to be, beating whatever their normal lives had. Whether its really some mythical Reaper, or not, I can't say. Feels like some overly elaborate prank in some ways, even if it ain't."

He chuckled when she mentioned maybe everyone else knowing what they were getting into, noticing the pause before she continued with explaining why she was here, and he nodded. Alex could see how grades could be a problem, hell, his own scholastic experience was not anything impressive, to put it mildly, and he said as much, not actually giving away much in the personal life department, no need to be that familiar yet. He was keeping half an ear cocked towards that Ramon kid and the posse that was building, but didn't give them much thought right now. "Yea, my schooling wasn't worth anything notable, so this beat working some fast food joint minimum wage for the rest of my life, it sucked what little I had to do before I kicked that place to the curb."