Ah, direct to the point, are you?

[The professional type - or, perhaps, merely someone inured by this school, or having trouble expressing emotion?

Too early to tell. Still, he tilts his head before he speaks again.]

Well, it's less a need - and more of a...question, I suppose? I was going to beat about the bush, but I suppose there's no need.

Has anyone ever been...hm, how best to put this...

[He makes an act of seemingly thinking about it, before 'casually' shrugging.]

Have you ever heard of a student being buried alive here?