[You can't fool a reporter by avoiding a direct question, and particularly not one who learned from Miss Lane herself... but he's not going to push it. He knows Annabeth enough to know that if she's hiding something there must be a reason for it.

So he just gives her a nod and a half-smile.] Alright then, but I'd still like to know she's alright if you get the chance to talk to her? You don't have to tell me what you talked about, but- well. She might have lasted this long, but you never know.