[centre][h1]Frederick Hughes[/h1]
Mental State: Focus broken, a bit shaken
Physical State: Wide awake and mostly healthy[/centre]

Frederick barely had the chance to make his mind up on how to approach the issue of investigating the suicide when, for the second time that day, he found himself being approached by a stranger. 

[color=39b54a]"I'm terribly sorry to disturb you, Sir, but I couldn't help but see that the University is guarded by the police. What is going on?"[/color]

Under lighter circumstances, the irony would have made Frederick keel over with laughter. Hardly even a moment after he was let in on the knowledge of what had happened at the university, and now he was the one who’d be filling a local in! 

If only the irony wasn’t predicated on the fact that a human being had been irreparably broken and mangled a short distance away. That and the feeling of grief and devastation that Frederick could now perceive as the quiet dread in the air rather sucked any potential humour out of the situation. 

“It’s quite alright- Officer Bailey over there was just letting me know about the suicide that happened here the other day? This part of the campus is off-limits until cleanup’s finished, apparently.” Frederick shuddered slightly as he finished his sentence. As much as he’d seen back home over the years, referring to the remains of what had been a living, breathing human as a mess to be cleaned up sent a shiver down his spine. 

“If I’m correctly informed, it was a professor who jumped from the highest point on campus.” Nonetheless, he regained his composure to finish his exposition to the stranger with a gesture to the building a short distance from the two of them. There was no need to mention anything else that Bailey had told him; he remembered the young man’s reaction upon realizing he’d said too much, and so decided to withhold the supposed ‘unusual circumstances’ that were leading the police to treat the case as a possible homicide. 

“I just came here to see about an appointment I had, that’s really all I know at the moment,” He added, with a shrug. Still marginally amusing to think he was more in the loop than some locals a whole day after the incident.