[She's really being quite nice to him, and he's finding himself a little flustered by the experience. It's been a long time since he had to be around a big group of people again, and now they're being nice to him and that's it's own emotional hurdle to get over. At least she's asking easy questions and seems comfortable with the silence, and he forces himself to take a sip of the water and try to calm down.]

Yeah, it's... it, it sounds mental, but I thought I saw it move and just... panicked, I guess?

[Which is not entirely untrue, in the span of it. But he thought it might have been one mannequin in particular, dressed in the garb of a ringmaster, with the ancient skin of a gorilla over it's shoulders...]

I mean the whole place is kind of creepy anyway, it was... p-probably a matter of time.