Yes, I agree on Fukuda—if someone is openly disturbed, then they make a target of themselves anyway.

[ not a bad choice, but still. she goes much more still at hearing her recount about ashiya—everyone has been relatively courteous to her, but someone like that asking about wounds that fresh irks her.

and also, she has to think on that. ]

I've had no interest in keeping his company, personally. But I had not known that about his connection to Beauregard.

Could the skull be related to him...? Perhaps that skeleton of his—it could've been in the room with me even if he was not. [ maybe the noise they heard were his claws, too. ]