[Alex definitely has a huge caffience habit, even now. It's a little frightening how much coffee she puts into her system if she thinks about it, so she doesn't normally. Save for times like this, which just makes her sigh. She wants to stop him from speeding down the road that she's been on for too long.]

They work against you in the end you know, Peter. They make it harder to sleep when you do, and increase everything else. When you don't sleep like this, it's like not having any shields, and everything hits a raw nerve. Caffeine sort of just... helps that process out. If nothing else, trying to cut it after like seven or something might be good. And set an actual bed time and stick to it. Even if you just stare at the shadows on your walls for a while, it starts to make your brain like... get in the habit of at least trying to sleep.

[Which in Alex's case actually made it worse, because it gave her brain free reign to lengthen those shadows around her.]