[ Akua does not force her way in. She does not push through, and force Hayame to do anything that she did not want. That was not the way with her, that would not allow them to be closer, and Akua wants to be closer to Hayame. She considers her a friend, after all. She wants to be close to her, and have friends, and show her what a friend could do. She had once eschewed them as readily as Hayame did, and now...

Now she wants them, and Hayame is brave, and strong, and perhaps sometimes lacks caution, but that is where Akua sees that she can help her.

But now she wanted to shut her out, as if there was something she did not want her to see. As if the fact that he had been trying to scrape and pull at her mind earlier was something she did not want to admit. ]

You do not have to allow me in. You do not have to talk. I will stay here, though. In case something is needed, or...

[ In case you will accept me. ]