"Maybe-- they want us calm," Bum supplies helpfully. Not that he could talk, but most people seemed rather cooperative with the situation overall. "Maybe... the dinner is actually spiders..."

He hasn't really been eating properly since the whole glitching thing started, for exactly this reason. It's all too easy to imagine what really might be filling that rice bowl, and he's gone without food for days before. It's fine. He's fine.

"Maybe we're all -- sleeping in ash and tar. Maybe--"

Maybe Suzaku wants to stop him before he really freaks himself out any further. Or he could validate his guesses instead.