"From nightmares?" Akito is a bit too keenly interested to be able to pass it off as idle curiosity, but he doesn't care if Ayin guesses that he still suffers from bad dreams. If a house guardian can help with them at all, he'll eagerly wait for one. "There will always be bad dreams and monsters hiding in the dark. Just maybe not as bad as there used to be, ne?"

He makes himself comfortable in the chair he's been shooed to, drawing his knees up to his chest and huddling around himself. "Um, do you know what 'daseng' means, Ayin-san?"