"...You don't have to worry about me, okay?"

He sighed, pushing his sunglasses to the top of his head.

"Look, I get that you must have been working unimaginably hard where you came from. And I respect that, honestly. But I don't want you to feel like you have to handle every single problem that crops up, at least not on your own. I'm a little tougher than I look, and I don't want a kid my sister's age feeling like watching my back is her responsibility, you know?"