I'm guessing a lot of the reasons you have for hating Poe are reasons you could also apply to me.

[ She says it levelly, but she knows. They haven't really talked about their very large difference of opinions since he'd first arrived here. It had been easier to focus on other things. ]

He wasn't disgusted, Ben. Even if he was, what does it matter? I don't need his permission to be with you.

[ She can feel that upset in him, that people will only ever see him as a monster, that they might decide the same of her because of the company she keeps. ]