She nodded in the middle of the hug, holding onto Ange as long as her experience had shown was usually before someone started squirming. It was probably such a sign that she might have started timing her hugs just to be sure they didn't linger too long. breathing out and easing back, she closed her eyes. "You're right, of course. We have to be able to rely on each other. I'll just need to be careful when I'm helping people after I've recovered."

The problem was, and she hadn't realized it, that the nature of the situation with the butterflies was such that she was uniquely rather vulnerable to their depredations. She had way too much hope, and at the same time too much paranoia. Still, eventually she'd be back at her home, avoiding them entirely.