[Rogue started walking towards the Clothing Shop. As confident as she was, she was also careful to keep him from being strictly at her back. Wings were a weakness.

She held up her gloved hand.]

I can't have skin-to-skin contact with anyone, or else my powers activate. [So I know, really, what it's like to want something terribly and not be able to have it.] I absorb lives. Memories, powers, talents... your whole 'life-force.'

[It wasn't something she liked to talk about; she was only talking about it now because she wanted him to know that she wasn't simple prey, and she wanted him to know why.]