<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/Rt2ECxS.gif)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Kevin Finch<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 15th, 2021, 9:00AM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>SOPHE Headquarters, Hallways towards Holding Cell<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Mallory, Kyless<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>Humdrum Shadowing 101<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Camos - like always . Including knife and pistol<br/><br/><hr/><br/>It never ceased to put Kevin off balance when Kyless suddenly appeared. But this time he was already off balance so it wasn't the shock it usually was. And he quickly took his place by Mallory's side as she prepared the tests. "Adjacent means next to, Kyless. My room is next to hers so if something should happen, I will be there right away." The implicit warning was there, but he had visited this place far too many times to expect that this warning would have that much more impact on Kyless's behavior than any of the others had. In some ways, his superiors were much kinder in their messaging to the demon than Mallory's were - it was a basic variant of<em>Don't cause problems and we won't cause you problems.</em><br/><br/>The problem was, however, that Kyless lived to cause problems, and their insistence on restricting her ability to cause them was, at least as far as Kevin understood, the problem as far as Kyless was concerned. But she did like her pillows, and sometimes, on that rarest of occasions, Kevin wondered if not letting the demon have a damn blanket was more trouble than it was worth. Of course, that's why Kyless let him see the blanket, to play on his sympathies. Well, Mallory's sympathies. Kevin understood all too well that Kyless didn't care particularly about or for him, all things considered.<br/><br/>And inasmuch as Kyless presented a potential threat to Mallory, that was Kevin's problem. And he'd deal with it appropriately. That you could be sure of.<br/><br/>"So by short day, what do you mean, Kyless?" The term brought up all sorts of alarm bells in his head. It might mean she'd turn off the lights early, but it was just as possible that she had something far more sinister in mind. And with her interest in Mallory, even though her general demeanor to his friend was far more benign, that wasn't something he was ready to countenance.