"It's okay to retread ground on something a few times to parse through it," Hamuko nodded, though she listened to the switch in topic back to the psientists.

If someone else attacks her... hmm.

"Would you or Zenkichi be willing to step in and stop an attack on her if it happened? Not fight to defend her, exactly, just... de-escalate a situation. That might shift her perspective out of paranoia, maybe?"