Kisa was trying to brave her way through it as well, if the set of her shoulders and the small smile she offered Chloe were any indication, but she could feel everything weighing on her, exhaustion included, in a way she couldn't completely hide.

"I'll manage, but thank you." There was a slight pause, perhaps weightier than she intended it to be, as she glanced aside for a moment, then back to Chloe. "But it might be better to walk back together, even so." There was something inside her that didn't want to be alone right now, not yet. Even if her company was the gaijin she'd always been awkward around, and even if--

--but that was exactly what she was trying to get away from.