The quiet stillness is enough to get anyone's imagination filling in the gaps, the same problem that Togusa was describing before. And then, when the fog is generating things from that imagination, half the time? But it shouldn't, for Freya, right? She's not on the application.

The comment makes Togusa laugh. "The exact opposite, actually." So he'll fill the silence with noise, keep talking to set them both at ease. "We recently got back in touch, and now that I'm no longer his student, we've become quite good friends. I still think of him as a teacher, though, remembering the lessons I've learned from him."