One might hope you are right. But there is a long distance between cooperation for a common goal and the peaceable acceptance of my intimacy with one they have dubbed their own. It takes me out of a... safe distance.

But more, as I said... I am concerned with how Rogue will be treated. I imagine it will be thought I am manipulating her, or that it's her own desperation to be touched driving us together. Though I would hope none would think that of her, since it shows a lack of respect toward her that I would find most angering. Or perhaps she will be thought a traitor because loyalty to one group should keep me frozen out, yes? Friends expect their friends to share their enmities.

Any of those things would hurt her, badly. And thus I worry. But there is little I can do, I expect, if the worst should come to pass, and I worry about that as well.