I do. I just think you're being rather harsh on yourself for making one person's overbearing emotions a blanket reason for everyone else to also not care about you. No matter how much he might insist otherwise, Mika is not an absolute.

[Damn, is he getting up to leave already? He sighs.]

You can use your words and ask me to go if this isn't a space you want to share right now, Ahito.

I have something I want to ask you to help with, when you're feeling up to it. Because I had thought you were one of the best ones to trust to be able to handle it. But if we can't even have a conversation for more than a minute at this point, then I will go find someone with more patience.