It usually was just better to go with the flow here. Less of a headache. Especially when you had to react to things right away because it was an invasion or something, trying to make sense of it in the moment was likely to get someone injured, if not killed. There was enough of a threat of that anyway. No need to have a sign pointing down at you because you were too busy trying to make sense of what was happening as it was happening.
Protection was a very good motivator. At least for Raven. Nodding to him to follow her, she rounded a corner and found someone who needed healing, "Cover me." Hopefully he would be fine with that, but she needed to heal this person and it was easier to just do a healing instead of a protection barrier plus healing.