Todd smiled and then closed his eyes, relaxing, and soon falling asleep.

The next couple days flew by as the hive traveled along its route to the worshiper world. After making his morning rounds, he'd return to Rogue and they'd head down to the sparring chamber. Sometimes they'd have the place to themselves, sometimes they had a small audience.

One morning, Cody was there and he asked Rogue if he could spar with her

Todd was hesitant to let her. He knew how to limit himself and avoid contact in the fight when possible in the event her ability switched on in the heat of it. But Cody was swift and had yet to learn how to hold back, in fact he was becoming more aggressive in his sparring.

Also he didn't want Rogue suffering through cracked ribs again.

She'd only ever sparred with him so this would be quite a shift. It was Rogue's choice however.