Rex took note of this and filed it away because it was important information about the size of what he was dealing with and because the filing told him that the second exchange would need more of the catalog than the first one had.
"Like I just said... you went into the ground," Alexander said. His voice was flat, like someone who wasn't angry yet but was getting ready to be. "That's a cheap trick for what monsters do!"
'I am one, but eh...' he paused, a smirk creeping onto his face as he added, 'I prefer to think of myself as a sophisticated predator.'
"I used the subsurface layer." Rex said, "The soil at the training ground has a certain texture at depth, and reading it helped me get around it."
"How?" Alexander said. "That's not a function of standard elemental control."
"No," Rex said. "It isn't."
