"Agreed," she says, rolling right up so she can shake it. Alice Holmes raised her daughter to be polite. "Don't know if I'd express it quite that way-- but yeah, these are some damn unfortunate circumstances we've got here. I'm guessin' you're from my future? I'm told that the preferred term after my time is 'black' but that still seems so rude to me."

She moves back a little after she shakes his hand, to give him a little space.