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Silas needed new friends, or at least to do something about a certain bespectacled troll who had attempted to gaslight him with a pumpkin. Said bespectacled troll had directed Silas to go to this particular establishment, saying that the food was decent but the real draw was- "get this"- a burlesque show. Honestly, he wasn't even sure why he caved in and went to this place in the first place. Was a burlesque show really worth whatever goofy surprise his friend had planned for him?

Yeah, it probably was. It'd be a nice change of pace.

Hearing his name called, Silas looked in the direction and locked eyes with a familiar face. "Hey, Kaida!" That's right, he remembered this girl from the New Year's Eve disaster. They were just about geared up for a dance (probably?) before he passed out, then she passed out, and then he shoved a note with his number on it in her hand when he came to. He still thought that was a tacky move on his part, but given the situation, it made sense. Sort of. "How have I been...? All over the place. That's the best way to describe it. How about you? I take it you got out of the hotel okay? Sorry for just plunking my number in your hand, by the way. It seemed like a good idea at the time."

"Crazy is one word for it. I'm surprised anyone got out without a mark. The fighting got really bad in a whole bunch of places. I heard that some people were even kidnapped." Of course, Silas knew for sure that people were kidnapped, but a little disguising needed to be done for the sake of making the world stay sane. "It was work and obligations. I basically kept bouncing from school to work to some other things and back. It wasn't all bad, though. I've got some good friends who help me out. One of them even told me to come here." Perhaps that troll would escape a smack upside the head for tonight. The mention of a new responsibility seemed like an interesting avenue to pursue. "A new responsibility? Mind if I ask what it is?"

"It really does, doesn't it? Granted, the friend who referred me here is kind of a troll, but he's still good. He tried to gaslight me with a mysterious stalker pumpkin back in October, if that gives you any indication of what he's capable of." Silas had kept that pumpkin before accidentally smashing it one not-very-sober night. His friend had "called" the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pumpkins and held a funeral. It was very touching. In any case, the mention of a neighborhood watch caught Silas's attention. It was a bit curious that she couldn't give him the details, but he wasn't really going to press. "A neighborhood watch, huh? I do a little neighborhood watching myself. It's kind of a volunteer thing." The allusion that slipped out of his mouth there made him wonder if Kaida was hiding something similar, but it wasn't like he could just ask her if she was a senshi or a Knight.

"Yeah, it was funny until the pumpkin met an untimely end. We had to hold a funeral for it. It was very touching." Silas knew better than to take anything that friend did too seriously; there was at least a kernel of humor in all of his shenanigans. He nodded at the mention of neighborhoods getting ransacked. "Yep. It's impossible to tell what could happen at any given time, so you have to be vigilant, or next thing you know every car on the street is either egged or on fire. Or at least all the car alarms are going off at once at 3 AM. That's the worst." If he had a nickel for every time a car alarm went off at some dumb hour on the DCU campus, he would have some decent spending money.

"There is no 'especially.' They're all terrible," Silas said with a chuckle. Then Kaida made him remember: oh, right, she was on the job. "Oh, right! Go right ahead, do what you need to do. I'll probably be here for a little bit. I want to see at least one of the acts before I go home." Since the burlesque show had been his friend's selling point, he wasn't going to leave without at least checking it out. He didn't think he'd be disappointed, really.

Silas wasn't quite sure what he was expecting. Maybe he was expecting something a little tackier (he didn't trust his friend's taste all of the time), but honestly, he was actually entertained by the performance. When Kaida came up beside him, it pulled him back to reality. "Yeah," he said with a nod. "That was pretty good! It had good movement to it, if that makes sense. Good energy." Okay, so that kind of sidestepped the point of a burlesque act, but that would be another matter. "What other kinds of performances are there here?"

"Exactly. It's a dance, not just stripping." It still felt a little weird sidestepping certain points of a burlesque, but it wasn't that much of a problem. "Comedy routines and a magician... sounds like a good time. Maybe I'll stick around a bit longer and see them. I could use a laugh." Knight life was undoubtedly stressful at times, and enjoying the simple civilian things was refreshing.