It is not that Akane especially enjoys teasing Sigma, he just makes it so easy. He was just so worried, of course with good reason, but it didn't make it any less amusing to her. They had always lived in a world of danger. What's so surprising about it being more immediate than it usually is? But in the end she doesn't take her hand back. If he feels more secure leading her along she didn't want to actually upset him. Although what was he afraid of? Her getting lost in the crowd?

Akane nodded slightly at the suggestion, watching the rats scurry by with a careful eye. The would have to be very selective of their camping sites. The last thing they needed was to accidentally pick one of their nesting sites. "A wide array of diseases could just as easily backfire on us. Feral cats might just be purrferable." Although they could be just as infested with a host of diseases and parasites like the rats. And a scratch could get infected as easily as a rat's bite. "Either way, I would like to avoid the animals." The feral animals on the red Earth were always a problem, but at least they hadn't been apparently planted to make everyone's lives harder on purpose.