There was a typo in one of my earlier post.  The mercenary never traveled to Twilight Town, he traveled to Traverse Town (not sure how I confused the two when I wrote my intro post).

For the time being, i'm gonna wrap up my subplot per my main OC before joining you guys in Twilight Town.  As for Gavin, I'm following whatever Pierce has in mind, not resisting the captive position this time.