I... appreciate that, really, but I couldn't do that to him. I wouldn't want him to feel unwanted or that he did something wrong. [Enough people have made him feel that way his whole life.] If it should come to be that he's on the ship, I will adjust. We'd be lucky to have him on the ship, anyway.

[Which she sincerely believes. WHILE SOKKA'S AWESOME FOR BEING CONCERNED ABOUT HER COMFORT, she prioritizes Alistair over that.]