Let them find out their feelings are mutual too early and they entangle themselves too tightly, burn too hot: they get to be as happy as they deserve before it is safe for him to be happier than his father permits, before he realizes his father cannot be saved, and they drop their guards: disastrous. Let them find it out too late and they burn too cold, they have severed their connection or let it wear thin, too thin to save each other, too thin to ever be happy at all: catastrophic.

Marinette and Adrien are Alix's friends—though they permit her that honor in ignorance of how much torment she allows them to endure, and for that reason she fears she shouldn't claim that title.