<div class="floatleft">(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x0qA5RDeTuU/TC8AuWK5sSI/AAAAAAAAAX8/EZFU5m85GKA/s1600/2009_Undisputed_3_18.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Alexei Mikhalev (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=250173.msg12408256#msg12408256)<br/><strong>City | Date | Time:</strong>Baltimore / August 13th, 2017 / 9:00 PM<br/><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong>Jacqueline 'Jackie' Fawkes (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=250173.msg12386147#msg12386147), Closed<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Music Festival!<br/><hr/>There was a trick that he had learned on his first few weeks as a performer, when he was still learning the ropes. People didn't like being pickpocketed, but they did enjoy seeing small tricks involving their wallets that didn't involve any money stolen. Besides, it earned a bit of goodwill when you showed that you could, as a matter of fact, effortlessly lift a wallet without using your 'powers' for evil. The fact that he could do it while stimulating a small, harmless yet quite distracting static shock through the person did help, he supposed. And if anyone was watching closely... well, that was where slight of hand came into play. The hand could in fact be quicker than the eyes, and he'd practiced the move a hundred times in front of a mirror before even thinking about a live audience. People saw what they wanted to see, despite any skeptic's claimed abilities to see right through an act, and people would 'know' that they didn't just see a man's hand disappear and go through somebody. To sum up, a light translucency trick to his right hand right before contact was made, slipping through whatever surface that needed to be slipped through, assimilating the object that he wanted to lift to his hand, and a quick jerk to let off the static electricity into the person. The jerk would distract not only the mark, but the people around him or her, allowing for an easy escape.<br/><br/>And when Jackie spoke of demonstrations, that was the trick that came to mind. There were so few opportunities for an evolved person to show off their abilities in this day and age, and fewer still that allowed them to do so as Evolved, so it was difficult to resist.<br/><br/>Pretty damn impossible, actually.<br/><br/>Alexei forced a smile to his lips as they dragged to a halt, far away enough from just about everybody so as to allow them some privacy," Do not worry about it. My... colleagues do not now about my abilities. They just think I'm a really good escapologist. We're a tight knit group, you see," He scowled, tucking his calloused hands into his pockets," I don't know how they would feel about me lying to them from the beginning. Besides, I've seen first hand what happens when our abilities get shown in the wrong kind of light."<br/><br/>"Still," He said, a smile coming back to his lips which had taken a sour turn down as bad memories jumped back into his mind's eye. This smile was genuine, with a mischievous twinkle touching his eyes.<br/><br/>"We are in same boat, as you say," His hand flickered forward, already translucent, slipping through her neck to take hold of the chain that she was wearing around her neck. It took him less than a quarter of a second to assimilate the object before pulling it back towards him, the electric jolt, barely more stunning than your average static buildup, jumped from him to her as his hand came free, holding the chain as a smirk touched his face, dangling it before her eyes," There's no reason not to show off."