You're made of sterner stuff than my protagonist, I admit. My thoughts behind it are that Alliance Kids aren't used to obsessive people being angry about situations in their aura. Plus the first words being a furious/exasperated, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?" on the instant of arrival.
Sort of thing that would lead to a person hiding from interpreted rebukes.
FTR the Nae'hyn mechanic-priests will apologise for their behaviour and then make amends. A step or fifteen ahead of your old abusers, methinks.
Most of my old abusers I've seen multiple times in police blotters getting in trouble with the law. While I've never had anything worse than a parking ticket.