She was looking at it entirely wrong. Signum was, and had been, a friend first, and when she had been in a bad place, she hadn't thought she could turn to him. It wasn't making a friend out of an enemy; it was reminding a friend that even in the worst of times, she was not alone.

"As for your Barriers... Could you put one up here and now? Before you worry too much about needing some counteracting agent I'd like to try something."

Did it always come back to experiments for him?