[Akin is good with body language. Including figuring out that, hey, those guys are probably violent and this guy is asking for help, even if he's not saying so. So he approaches]

I'm not interrupting something important am I?

[This would be one of those times when he wished he took more after human males than Oankali. He could look confident, and he knew how to defend himself, but he knew humans (and probably other species) set some store in physical height and bulk.]