Billy cracked a smirk at her first comment, chuckling slightly. "Looks like we're both on the run from somethin', then." He remarked, looking over at her. "Look, it ain't that you're a burden. I'm just not used to the company is all. And I wasn't sayin' you'd be better off in a town just ta get rid of ya. It was an honest fact. That's the best place ta be durin' that time 'a year." He admitted, adjusting Bella in his arm as he returned his vision to the fire.