[ Maruki understands more than Eren can possibly know. He will always hold in his heart the time that he and Akechi spent alone in that home together, when Eren was the only guest. Opening the home up has been his decision every time, and he's never regretted it, but there was something to be said for that period of total solitude with the two people he's destined to know across all of reality.

For Eren, it's surely about acceptance. Maruki doesn't have to ask that, he can guess it. ]

Okay. That's good to know. I want you to be comfortable, though. Life is difficult enough without feeling like you don't have a place to rest.

[ Eren may want to hide away, but Maruki doesn't allow it for much longer. He rolls over to face Eren, still held tight in the circle of his arms, and brings a hand up rest over his nape. ]