<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/Rt2ECxS.gif)</div>NAME: Kevin Finch<br/>DAY: June 15th, 2021, 11:00AM<br/>LOCATION: Knick Knack Remembrance Shop<br/>TAGGING: Toshiro | Mentioned: Mallory, Kyless<br/>EXTRA: Having Found It, He Goes to What May Come Next<br/>WEARING: Camos - like always . Including knife and pistol<br/><hr/><br/>Kevin looked as Toshiro paid and cornered him into playing for the group, and sighed inwardly, though he kept his stoic demeanor. "Thanks for that, then. I guess I wasn't going to get away from having to perform for you once you saw me buy that, was I?" It had been two years already. Most of the crew knew he played piano. Not many knew how much he put into it - after all he tended to advertise other traits he had more. Mallory knew of course. Mallory knew everything. She'd probably be delighted that Kevin would be putting on a performance. Then again, most of them would be. He'd get some razzing from some quarters, sure, but in the end, everyone wanted to push each other up, not take them down. That much about SOPHE was true. At least the parts of SOPHE he saw. Then again, even his father didn't mind the music so much - it was just another way to build character. Lots of it.<br/><br/>Sometimes Kevin thought he had built enough character to last himself a lifetime.<br/><br/>"And yeah, the jazz would be a nice change of pace - just like this stuff is. Most of my training was classical." Again, the character building thing. At any rate, he gruffly nodded when the Doctor suggested they return to the department store. "Yeah, it's getting late and we all need to reconvene." There was a word that would set Kyless's gears running. It was odd - she had lived for centuries and still found certain words strange and fascinating. It was just one more of those things that threw him off when it came to the Calder demon. At least the mall hadn't blown up or sent the human population running and screaming, so she had behaved like he had asked.<br/><br/>Kevin wasn't sure how excited he was to meet everyone again. He had left things awkward with Mallory, but at least now he had a way to clear the air. Somewhere in the middle of the corridor, he stopped and turned back towards Toshiro. "I know I don't show it a lot, Doc, but thanks... I kind of needed a kick in the pants right now, and it's probably easier that it was gentle." Most people he knew in a position to advise him would have just told and/or yelled it at him point blank, which wouldn't have helped so much. He shrugged again and kept walking.<br/><br/>Soon they were back in the department store. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, and there were groups of people moving from display to display, unaware of the world they lived in and the dangers that drifted among them. Kevin wondered for a second how they would have acted if they knew. Would they be able to go on? Would they just keep shopping as always? It was a burden to know. But it was a burden he had made his peace with - or at least so he thought.