Raven rolled her eyes. "Only because they don't know the rest of the story. That the only reason I was there was to kill someone else." Not that she'd gone through with it. And in the end, Trask had been discredited. It was even better than killing him, really, since it meant he didn't become a martyr to some mutant-hating person like Stryker.

"I was disguising myself as someone else," she pointed out ruefully. Technically as the form she'd used when she'd first met Erik. Still mostly her face and body, but pale instead of blue. "And then Stryker showed up and knocked me and the rest of the kids out and when I woke up, I was..." She didn't answer in words. Instead, she shifted into her blue form.

"And here...it's better we know each other than not."