[h3][colour=DBE9F4][i][u]Kai - Odd One One[/u][/i][/colour][/h3]
Kai loved the smell of smoke.

It reminded him of home.

It irritated his eyes and burned his nose, but he found comfort in it all the same. It tried reminding him of things he wished he hadn’t forgotten, and yet he could never recall them. A face. A voice. A song. A promise. [i]ᴬ ˡⁱᵉ[/i].

All gone in the blink of an eye.

Now, Kai hated the smell of smoke.

It reminded him of home.

Home didn’t exist anymore. Only noise. Only chaos.

That, at least, he could relish.

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A single eyelid cracked open, peering unblinkingly at the high wooden ceiling before falling shut. A pair of headphones hung loosely around his neck, playing quiet gibberish into the empty air. A light grey hooded sweater was discarded over a wooden nightstand beside the occupied bed, pooling slightly on the pristine wooden floor. Various pieces of (expensive) equipment and clothing were strewn across the rest of the room, some newer than others, and several with tags still attached....

Technically, none belonged to the room’s sole occupant, but that was just semantics. They [i]were[/i] in his room, so they [i]were[/i] his by definition. It was all quite logical, truly.

Amid all the mess, Kai lay with a hand draped across his face, blocking one of his silvery eyes, completely dead to the world....

[i].... He was so bored.[/i]

Sleeping the day away had seemed like a good idea at the time (it wasn’t), but even after waking up some hours later, he was still [i]bored[/i] out of his mind. The whole plane ride to Hawaii was uneventful, even more so since he missed his chance to do something about it. Being on his best behaviour was always exhausting work. Sure, he spent most of that time asleep, but still.

Jail time was starting to sound marginally more appealing than usual right about now.

There had to be something he could do to stave off this boredom.

Almost as if on cue, the television sputtered on, the screen pitch black and emitting awful static interference.

[i]DO YOU SEEK FREEDOM?[/i] That was a dumb question. Who doesn’t? Koalas, maybe. And pandas. Actually, did those two even count for anything?

Er.... what was he thinking about again?

[i]DO YOU SEEK–[/i]

Hold that thought.

Kai dug around the TV's internal cables, pulling and twisting the wires this way and that to input his honest reaction until the screen fizzled out entirely in a burst of static. A jolt ran through his fingertips, widening the grin on his face ever so slightly, disturbingly, before dropping entirely.

He huffed in disappointment.

Even possessed TVs didn’t have a sense of humour these days. Almost made him regret coming here. Almost.

Somehow uneventful TV possession aside, his appetite for mischief was nowhere close to being satisfied, so he set about finding a way to make a mess of things, in a fun way, of course, only for a card on the bed to catch his scattered attention. His head tilted towards it in confusion.

Weird. He hadn’t noticed it before.

Then again, he had crashed immediately upon getting into the room, so it wasn’t too surprising he missed it. Speaking of crashing, he wondered if this hotel had a parking lot of any sort. He’d never driven a civilian car before.

Well, that was a plan. Kai nodded to himself cheerily, completely bypassing the note on his bed in favour of his new mission. He put on his headphones to the sound of static, pulling up his hoodie to cover his bedhead. How lovely! Electrical interference was his second favourite genre.

The first thing Kai noticed when he made his way to the ballroom—he thought that was a movie-only thing, honestly—was the buffet table. Even from where he was standing, he could hear it calling his name. [i]Mai, Mai....[/i]

Wait, that wasn’t his name. Oh, well, he did–

Huh?

Would you look at that? There were already [s]victims[/s] people there. Oh, he could already imagine how much fun they would have. Well, he would, in any case.

But, first! Sustenance.