[ Tsukasa opens his mouth and shuts it again not a moment later; he slowly opens an eye to study her before he shuts that again, too, and just holds his own tea in his hands. The warmth's always calmed him down.

Yeah, there's no way she'd believe anything except the truth. He won't even try. People like his honesty for some reason, anyway. ]

...We were investigating something and we went into some dogs' territory. That's all. Shishimaru's not much better than I am. [ franchan has just been very tragically sick!! rip... ] It isn't that bad though, promise. It's just, mmm. A pain.

[ and all of that isn't the whole truth, but it covers "what happened" fine enough. ]