After her nap, Rogue had spent much of the day meditating or doing her taiji forms. She missed their sparring sessions and the exhilaration she'd gotten from the physicality of it. Taiji wasn't anywhere near the same, but it was the only exercise she could manage with her injury, so she'd take it.

When Todd returned, she immediately registered that something was off. She spent a good part of each day with this man, she'd have to be blind to miss the anguish that clung to him.

"What happened?" she asked quickly, feeling like a weight was pressing on her chest, making it difficult to breathe. "Did something go wrong?" The only thing she could think was it was something to do with his potential queen, nothing else could cause this sort of reaction. Nothing that she knew of. And if it had to do with the queen, it couldn't be good.