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A'zam was prowling the streets, as usual, stopping every now and then to use the piece of cardboard and small hand broom he'd found long ago to attempt sweeping up what looked like tiny shards of glass from the street. Now, he wasn't getting paid in any way for this, mind, but he did not like stepping on sharp stabby items himself, and he doubted very many others who did not have shoes liked it either. So he'd taken it upon himself to try to keep the streets of the less fortunate areas of The City clean of harmful stabby things when he could. That was pretty much about all he knew how to do, actually, aside from run and somehow miraculously escape getting too badly damaged in huge fires. He still has no explanation for that, as all he remembers is chasing after someone who had a very very gorgeous tail. Hell, he couldn't even remember if who he'd been chasing had been male or female. Not that gender had ever really mattered to him. He was getting tired of this city and the things that went on, though. Oh so tired of it. He knew one of these days he was probably going to explode over something and get himself in trouble. That's what happened when you kept bottling your anger and other emotions up for so long, or so he'd been told before.

He shakes his head, clearing it of thoughts like those. Those thoughts tended to remind him of what had happened to the one that had given him that bit of knowledge. And those memories made him... extremely agitated and angry. And he couldn't be agitated and angry when he was trying to be careful with sharp things. He looks around, spotting what appeared to be an old garbage container, and walks over and sweeps the contents on his makeshift dustpan into the container before turning and looking back at the area in front of him, humming slightly now.

A'zam's head whipped up and around, hearing a voice behind him. Blinking in slight surprise for a moment, he looks down at his 'tools', then grins slightly and gives a small shrug. "I... ah... have to make due with what I have." He wasn't one of those citizens who let the Tower take care of his every need, after all. He preferred to fend for himself, since that's what he and his brother had done when they'd moved to the city just before the big fire had started. As it was, the apartment they had shared had been destroyed, taking everything with it, so A'zam really just moved from abandoned building to abandoned building every night for shelter.

"If I didn't do this, who would? Nobody else really gets out to this part of town and I know I, for one, don't like stepping on broken glass and bits of metal. It hurts." He glances down at his feet for a moment, then switches his 'broom' to his other hand, offering it to the female before him. "I'm A'zam."

A'zam's felt his face curling into a cheeky little grin as she introduced herself. "I dunno, I kinda like the sound of Andi, myself, but if you prefer Sea, that works too." He drops his hand back to her side when she didn't accept it, then nods. "Yeah, sure, I got time. I can't guarantee I'll have answers, or know who might be able to help, but I can try my best."

She was certainly a cutie, A'zam had to admit to himself. And, was she flirting with him? This was a new thing for him to have happen to him. "I don't mind. Water or something light to eat sounds good. Although I hope I have the answers you might be seeking." He certainly wouldn't want this all to be a waste of her time, after all.

He follows after her for a time, at least until she mentions that she didn't really know where to eat at. Blinking for a moment, A'zam thinks, giving a quick glance around him to get his bearings before leading the way to a small cafe. "This alright?" He asks, glancing over at her.

He chuckles a bit at her statement about clean and not being a picky eater, then nods. "Yeah, it's clean enough on the inside. There was a big fire. Took out alot of buildings and people's lives. They've only just started rebuilding the tower, I think. No one really seems to know how the fire started. It left alot of people homeless. Some of us are just trying to make due as best as we can, trying to repair places we once called home or trying to help out in other ways. I don't really remember what the city was like before the fire, to be honest, I had moved here with my older brother not long before the city went up in flame."