<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/>"Yep, glass half full Mal." He might not have wanted to be here but he was also glad to be here. Because when Kyless dressed up her world in a pretty bow, it was easy for anyone, especially someone trusting like Mallory, to forget how dangerous it truly was. And then he gave a little thought to the idea that maybe it took a Mallory to handle a Kyless, simply because the very idea of handling might be the problem. They walked a razor thin wire with some of the demons they dealt with. And even as he explained, "It's literature, Kyless. Um... human stories," Kevin felt the wire keenly, perhaps less like a wire, and more like unstable ground ready to break from underneath the pair of them.<br/><br/>So it was reassuring when Mallory put her hand in his. If nothing else, it would keep him from shooting wildly at mushrooms. Besides it felt like better times when she did that, before... well before<em>that day</em>. The less he thought of what was supposed to have been his eighteenth birthday but instead became known as<em>That Day</em>, the better. And the less Kyless knew about That Day, the better still.<br/><br/>And then with one question, Kyless demonstrated how much she did know, which had as much an imbalancing effect on Kevin that it did on Mallory, turning his cheeks bright red. "No, Kyless. It's not,,, like that. Our rooms are adjacent that's all. So I can be there when Mallory needs me."<br/><br/>OK, that didn't help a whole lot.<br/><br/>"For protection. For protection."