It does successfully get a final laugh out of Alice, before she shrugs, taking a swig from her glass. "Humour's about all I've got going for me right now. Spent the last ten years in a job that provides no transferable skills to normal people work, let alone fantasy steampunk world work. We spend all night reading or listening to creepy stories and slapping a bunch of incomprehensible codes onto 'em before sending them back into the void of the British government's crumbling digital infrastructure."