Oh freak, a person. Who was probably as corporeal as this plushie had turned out to be. And who also happened to be the, like, violent clown. She couldn't come up with a better way to put it than that, especially given her lack of general data here.
He sure wasn't attacking, though, so we're just chilling with the clown part. Yes.

"It can be found in soil, I suppose…"
She tentatively dipped to pick it up, frowning at the tag for a while before focusing back in on Kaoru.

"Well, this one's too big to have killed anybody. Its actual-size cousins, however…"
Her smile fell.

"Just wasn't expecting to see this particular one, is all." She'd ask where he'd gotten it, but they probably needed to riff off the digging-up angle a while first. Maybe. Take it as it comes.