Snippet #2363345

Briefly, Kaz smiled. The stubbornness of a teenager. One of the many things that fascinated him. But also, wasn't great at this moment in time.

"There's...a lot. Well...not a lot, but not a little either. It's...complicated?" Kaz brushed back hands into his hair and let out a puffing exhalation. "I suppose...I can't exactly not answer. Can I?" His eyes flicked to Grant. "Can I?" The Viren's face read no.

Glancing around, Kaz sighed and nodded. "All right...but first we should find the others. If I'm doing this now, I'm doing this once."

Mumbling about how he had plans for Saturday and that things never went to schedule and how he should have known this would happen, Kaz tugged a few pieces of paper from the waistband of his pants. Two were from a yellow legal pad. One was crumbled and torn at the bottom. One was a napkin.

"Let's visit...uh...who's closest to here?" Kaz looked up, turned around on the spot, then nodded. "Ms. Virelli. Yes. Tally ho then, and all that."

Kaz led the way in his sandals, all the while trying to strike up a conversation with Grant. The thing was, Kaz cared little for small talk, but knew human teenagers tended to need a way to distract from stress or confusion. "I'll explain everything," Kaz promised as they rounded the corner into a neighborhood. "What a Viren is. Who you are. It's all very complicated, like I said. I say it a lot. It's true, therefore I say it. But you must already know how complicated it is. You've heard the voice, I presume. You should have at least. Some hear it for years...even if they aren't called at all. It's rather...peculiar...in my opinion. The connections between Viren and the previous are..."

Kaz blinked, checked his paper, then pointed to the house they had paused at. "Ah, here we are."

Leaping up onto the porch, Kaz rapped his knuckles on the door and rang the doorbell to finish off his rhythm. He smiled to Grant, wondering if it looked genuine or not. He supposed not. He wasn't in the best of mood. He was actually quite nervous, which was odd for him. Nervous. Around a teenager. How very odd.