[centre][h1]Frederick Hughes[/h1]
Mental State: Focus broken, confused and more than a little unsettled
Physical State: Wide awake and mostly healthy[/centre]

Frederick couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow when the man unwittingly mentioned a second suicide; or rather, revealed that the suicide he’d just been informed of was the second suicide within some presumably small period of time. 

The man continued talking after a moment’s pause and Frederick watched and listened carefully. There was little else the man said that was pertinent to the first suicide he’d mentioned; but Frederick could tell that the one he’d just been informed of was setting the man on distressed edge, to the point of shakily asking if Frederick would help him get a better look at the scene of the crime.  He’d not even been in Arkham for an hour, and already it seemed doubtful that a slow, peaceful recovery was in the cards for him; multiple suicides, supposed ‘unusual circumstances’ and locals understandably jittery and unsettled in their own right seemed to put a damper on that. 

“In all honesty, I’d sooner not.” Unsettled himself somewhat once again, Frederick decided to be forthright, if still polite, with the man. “I’m not really here under the most pleasant circumstances myself, but besides that- Officer Bailey pointed me towards another part of campus to arrange my appointment, if you were curious about where to do that?” Right away, he pointed down south to indicate where the young man had directed him: “I’d sooner let them finish their work here before I see about prying, but if you’d appreciate the company regardless, I’m perfectly happy to provide it until we’ve made our arrangements.”

He couldn’t help but feel a little obtuse as he answered the man, but he felt he was making the right choice. Besides not wanting to make any more trouble than was strictly necessary for Bailey and the other officers working at the scene, he was of the mind that he could always return to examine the scene for any indication of those ‘unusual circumstances’ when it was open to the public. Perhaps it was down to some naive belief that the local police would have made progress enough to make any potential investigation of his own irrelevant; though perhaps it was also due to a wish to save the other man further distress by enabling his desire to see what was on the other side of the police line. 

God only knew the thought of that mangled body and the fact it was such a short distance away was giving him the chills.