Ace is just on this side of forgetting she ought really to stay human in moods like these.
"That is not the soddin' point, Raven." She's seen him burn, mad and howling with insane laughter. She's seen him tired and wasted. She's seen him turn into that other-self that is so unlike him as to be someone else entirely.

She is not going to let some trumped-up trollop take him away.