"Well, I have quickly learned that it is largely an exaggeration—especially reality television," Amara pointed out. "Which was confusing to me at first, but my fiance explained it to me once."
She gave him a sympathetic look when he spoke about his powers. "All we can do is grow into our abilities." She frowned, glancing away from him for a moment. "I have strong abilities too, and when I was young, where I was from, there was no place like this. There were bad things I did without realizing, but you cannot shut yourself away from people because you are afraid of your abilities. You aren't just...depriving them of the risk. You deprive them of all the good parts of you as well."
Doug had made her understand that after Selene had manipulated her into unknowingly working against the X-Men. It was part of the human condition to make connections. "If you want someone to work with, I'd be happy to assist."