[The corner of Loki's lips pulls up in a crooked smile.]

I said something very like that to her, several months ago. That I was tired of being told that I needed to reach out somehow, while in the next breath 'but not near me.'

She had something of the same look on her face.

[He gives Billy a relieved smile.]

I'm glad.

[He's silent for a moment. His instinct is to just leave it at that. But this is an experiment, as much as everything with Rogue has been. Cautiously, he's trying out something new, with the few people he actually trusts. It feels strange and tentative, but he's become so unmoored here over the last six months that he needs to try something.]

If you... want to ask anything... well, I cannot guarantee an answer, but I shall try.