<div style="text-align: center">Revised 11/21/2022<br/>​</div><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--2"/><br/><div style="text-align: center"><b>Kenji Avery – White</b><br/>
Mid-June, 2022<br/>
Early Afternoon, Operations Room/Blockhouse<br/>
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Present: the family<br/>
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<span style="font-size: 18px">The Reunion</span>​</div><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--2"/><div class="bbImageWrapper bbImageAligned--left js-lbImage" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-single-image="1" data-src="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/attachments/kenji-2-jpg.136143/" title="Kenji 2.jpg">
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</div><br/>Terry was staying, Idris too. Addy was upset, but managed to hold it in. She reminded them all that there were nine pieces to the puzzle of their family, not just two. Kenji shook his head when he was asked if he had heard anything when he was driving Mother around. Truthfully, if he had he wouldn't tell them; a promise to keep a secret was a promise, after all, even if the person you promised it to had died.<br/><br/>There was a lot of hurt in this room. It was evident in Idris' tone more than her words, and Kenji wondered what had really happened between her and Addy to create this rift in their family. It almost felt like a lover's spat to him. But then again he never really understood women. They were too complex, too different from men, too…<i>layered. </i>He dropped his gaze to the ground as remembrances of Shrek explaining onions to Donkey came to mind. Yeah, women were like onions; they were layered, tangy, and were best with butter and some time warming up to be palatable.<br/><br/>His eyes raised to watch Chris as he spoke some sensibility into the room. Terry too, though the revelation about her headaches was new to Kenji. He realized he didn't know as much about his siblings as he had thought. Mother had known it all, but she kept it all to herself.<br/><br/>That had been a disservice to the family, but it was all water under the bridge now. Or, in the case of this family, blood under the bridge.<br/><br/>He still didn't know what he was going to do. Certainly he wouldn't turn his back on the family, but he also had goals that extended outside this mysterious dossier. Terry mentioned lunch and Kenji's stomach rumbled its approval. "I'll help," he volunteered, calling out to Terry as he moved towards the door. As he approached Tristan and Alissa he took a moment to pause. "Still vegetarian?" he asked Alissa, casting a sideways glance at Tristan.<br/><br/>Who knew what might have changed in the last few years? She could have decided to eat meat, for all he knew, though her lithe form and the paleness around her eyes told him otherwise.