"I'm sparing you an ethical dilemma." Suyeong brushes snow off her shoulders, then ruffles her hair and tosses it to shed whatever flakes she can there, too. "If I ask, you have to choose to turn me away and freeze me or not. Now I'm just unwelcome. You can be mad at me without any guilt at all."

That's how people screw themselves over, right? They take so long to worry about what they're going to do when they should just be doing what they have to do. Standing out there one minute more might have -- really annoyed her, because she won't admit she can actually be hurt in any way. So now she gets what she wants and makes it sound like a favor.