[center][h2]Briney Marina - Route 104S, Morning (Still behind current time, sorry!)[/h2][/center]

Jin was caught out by the older man. It made no sense to disguise his voice or dialect considering the manner in which the fisherman first caught a glimpse of him. While he wanted as little as possible in the way of a traceable eye witness account, it would have been more problematic and suspicious to decline Briney. However, Jin was a little wary - nigh on suspicious of how open the fisherman was to him. He's senses told him the man might be lonely and before even walking into the house he began checking for signs of isolation. The talkative manner of Briney was a giveaway - so willing to divulge into conversation without even establishing anything about Jin. Jin deliberately didn't talk as Briney explained that he would provide him clothes food and shelter for nothing in return. At first he just stood in the hallway with his muteness, not making to discrete a point of how reluctant he was to embrace the mans hospitality.

He glanced back and forth, seeing a table which a dust-mark, denoting that something used to be on the mantelpiece but had been removed. glancing at some of the paintings and photos hung on the wall, Jin could appreciate there were spaces, spaces which denoted that something was removed and not replaced. Eventually he stepped forward into the Kitchen where Briney was initially waiting for Jin's clothes. Jin slowly removed his outer layers, but initially placed his bag on the floor alongside his pokebelt, opting to keep them with him as he handed over his clothes standing in his briefs. As the clothes were exchanged, Jin noticed the indent in Briney's skin around his ring finger, and got a good grasp on what he concluded Briney's loneliness stemmed from. Now he was just a man standing in underwear in the house of a stranger of a strangeland.

If he was anything other than an undercover international agent Jin would not be anywhere near as accepting of his circumstance as he chose to be. Even now, Jin decided it still wasn't the best time to talk with Briney. He had managed to avoid even giving his name at this point due to how distracted Briney was. Jin nodded in respect as he turned to exit the kitchen and head upstairs for the shower. He was shivering and his plan to makeshift a camp in the woods was a hell of a lot longer and inefficient than a second-floor hot shower. Jin marched upstairs, placing his equipment just outside the door to the bathroom as he stepped into the shower. Assuming that Briney was alone, with his behavior and the clean up response to a departed, wedded partner Jin saw no reason to lock the shower door or draw the curtain. If Briney was that was inclined, he had the best opportunity to make advances on Jin. 

When Briney's son waltzed in to use the bathroom, calling Jin "daddy" in his sleepy stupor, Jin felt an awkwardness he had never experienced before. Of course, talking to a child you do not know in a bathroom while stark naked without parent permission was about as peodorific as it gets. Before the child was savvy enough to turn and glance at Jin in his morning glory, Jin slowly reached for the shower curtain with shower head still running. By the time he gripped it, however, the two had locked eyes in a deafening silence. Jin slowly pulled the curtain shut in a comically awkward manner as if it somehow retconned the fact an adolescent boy just say a naked stranger in his shower. He kept his silence, opting not to scare the boy by explaining himself, and simply stood on the other side of the curtain, waiting to the child to finish!

His heart was raising with embarrassment, but Jin was still fairly level-headed. The incident lay with Briney. The police officer in Jin wanted to reprimand Briney for his lack of attention in protecting a minor, being so free and open to Jin when he had a child in the house. Jin instantly determined that Briney must have had a wife who left him, most likely for absent behaviour like that. The request of the child to be accompanied to school allowed Jin to deduce that the child didn't get a lot of time to spend with his father, meaning it was probably a short term visit at the Marina. Maybe Briney had forgotten he had the boy in the confusion. Nonetheless, the fact he seemed to be on good terms with his son even though his aptitude as a father might be questionable Jin was much more willing to accept Briney was a good man. 

...He just hoped this incident wasn't going to dry up the hospitality. Jin turned off the shower from behind the curtain. The shower was stopped, but the pitter-patter of rain from outside was now trickling in the silence.