It wouldn't have inconvenienced you. You could have just gone to do laundry and ignored it. [ A beat, and then: ] I'm glad you didn't. Staying here with me, like this... It feels like, even if it might be a burden, it's one you don't mind bearing, sometimes.

[ Which Akira thinks might be more accurate for both of them. They do have burdens, exhausting emotional ones that take too much energy to deal with, but --

maybe it's the kind of thing they're okay with dealing with. ]