This was perhaps where the metaphor fell apart, because Alfred didn't have to worry about not having anywhere to go even if Evander had rejected him. He was a grown man with (some) life skills, though, and Charity didn't have that level of certainty about her ability to make her own way in the world. The feeling, though, he could empathize with.

"Well, I am a burden," he joked with a lopsided grin. "But in a way. I worried maybe there wasn't a place for me anymore."

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