"It's not a sanctuary for people like you," she retorts. After the Rose Queen's attack, they really should be more wary of visitors, especially suspicious people like this guy. Rita doesn't expect anything good to come from letting a changeling-hater into a safe house for changelings.

She wants to know who he's looking for (not that she'd help him in any case), but first... "What happened to you, anyway?" she can't help but ask instead. "You look like crap." He'd better not be bringing any weird illnesses in here with him.