Over the past year or so, Kevin has deeply enjoyed being full-time in the training division of the Enforcers, rather than splitting his time between training and patrolling. Naturally this means he's working overtime to patrol anyway more often than he isn't, and just as he thinks things are settling down and he might have some time to go soft, some sort of new set of thefts or Arehtei instability or natural disasters calls his attention.
On the plus side, he is very well paid.
But he's also tired, so although it's a bit of a shock when the Princess Allura turns up looking for ways to help out with the aftermath of Aiada's storms -- usually she's the first in line to be away, when a new expedition is announced -- it isn't any effort at all to put her to work. There is always something needing to be done at times like these. Better yet, Allura is accustomed to working towards the interests of a group, but also possesses a driven independent streak. Once Kevin tells her something she can do, she just does it, with very little further direction from him.
What this means is that Allura gets to experience Kevin Regnard when he is in a true and proper work-mode, rather than...whatever he's usually in. There is no sparkling, no flapping. No heckling from the sidelines, as he did when Allura came in to show his students their way around a staff earlier in the month. He actually sounds like a reasonable person who says reasonable things as he bosses some of the other officers around, coordinating just who is patrolling where with the ease of long experience. This was his job before he left this division, and he's the one who showed many of the more recently recruited officers their way around the beat in the first place.
But Kevin just isn't the sort of person who likes to stay behind and manage; that's what the guy who replaced him is for. Once everyone's territories are settled, Kevin's out on patrol too, Allura in tow. He relaxes noticeably then, despite the fact that they're headed into the depths of the slums. This, he tells the princess, is where he always targets the bulk of his attentions when disaster strikes, and they're bound to see plenty of action keeping an eye out for looters and damaged architecture there.
Aiada event: In the city. Using prose for ease of driving the NPCs
On the plus side, he is very well paid.
But he's also tired, so although it's a bit of a shock when the Princess Allura turns up looking for ways to help out with the aftermath of Aiada's storms -- usually she's the first in line to be away, when a new expedition is announced -- it isn't any effort at all to put her to work. There is always something needing to be done at times like these. Better yet, Allura is accustomed to working towards the interests of a group, but also possesses a driven independent streak. Once Kevin tells her something she can do, she just does it, with very little further direction from him.
What this means is that Allura gets to experience Kevin Regnard when he is in a true and proper work-mode, rather than...whatever he's usually in. There is no sparkling, no flapping. No heckling from the sidelines, as he did when Allura came in to show his students their way around a staff earlier in the month. He actually sounds like a reasonable person who says reasonable things as he bosses some of the other officers around, coordinating just who is patrolling where with the ease of long experience. This was his job before he left this division, and he's the one who showed many of the more recently recruited officers their way around the beat in the first place.
But Kevin just isn't the sort of person who likes to stay behind and manage; that's what the guy who replaced him is for. Once everyone's territories are settled, Kevin's out on patrol too, Allura in tow. He relaxes noticeably then, despite the fact that they're headed into the depths of the slums. This, he tells the princess, is where he always targets the bulk of his attentions when disaster strikes, and they're bound to see plenty of action keeping an eye out for looters and damaged architecture there.