Bullseye.  "Oh, dear, I've been found out.  Poor me."  And that was when Ishi stopped teasing Akiko.  She had spent the entire time building Akiko to a fever pitch, and she could see it from how the skunk morph was acting.  "I guess that the only thing that's left for me is to be hauled off for reeducation."  She wasn't going to play her trump card.  Not yet.  This was still too early, and someone might think it was a trick.  But Ishi had her triumph, Akiko was going to be left high and dry.