Lake Rodney life on the road

She chewed her lip as he made her see that as much as they were equals, still they were not. "are you not one of us?"  The rhetorical question was a weak argument, and she sighed, forepaw bouncing up and down subtle, as it often did when she was stressed. She peered at him sideways, admitting finally,  "I can't stop you from doing it. It'll be invaluable information, and you're capable...still, if you get hurt or some crap, I swear, I'll-" She huffed, turning her gaze back towards the water. Threatening him wasn't the best way to go around telling him she worried. Even though, up to this point, she had been adamantly not-a-worrier.

 "I care about you, ok?"  First, she had assumed it to be a friendship, but she couldn't find herself caring about Pema, or Kieran, or Sunny, even, in the way she cared for him. She eyed him sideways again, ready to abort her mission immediately if something went wrong.