Alex reddened and pushed his glasses up his nose, ducking his head as he did so. "I'm better with animals than I am with people," he said. "We just... they're easy."
People, sapient cryptids, anyone that had the ability to actually argue, really. Or maybe it was just a mammalian thing. He'd always gotten along well with his Gorgon assistant back in Cleveland. It was just nicer when he could shut everything away and just be there with reptiles and behavior patterns and anatomy and science.