Patrols [Crit]

On Lelei's end, he found himself worrying that the group of kids that he was following would end up causing more trouble. The direction of their retreat took them into direct line of sight of several bars and pubs. It would be no stretch of the imagination to assume that the kids might get more boozed-up, for almost any reason. Fearing that outcome, Lelei approached further up the street in case he needed to enter a bar and inform the owners.

Fortunately, his fears did not come to pass. Whatever the kids were up to, they were not interested in drinking anymore. They seemed more preoccupied with making up excuses for why they were the winners in the scenario, and boasting about how they would have won anyway or some such. Young men were great at self-delusion when it came to confrontations and their outcomes.

Satisfied, Lelei turned back to try and find Angelo. Now he might have actually seen Angelo earlier. But only after a few scans back and forth across the street did Lelei actually end up finding Angelo.

"Oh! There you are. How long were you standing there?"

He finally went up to Angelo to report.

"Well, the kids look like they'll be okay for now. What about on your end?"

"Man, when you put it like that, it's kinda spooky."

The very idea that Angelo could have been standing right off to the side of Lelei without him noticing at all felt unnerving to a degree. It was then that Lelei felt he fully grasped the extent of Angelo's power, and the kind of effect it could have on people. He wondered how many people that Angelo had watched had ever developed the back-of-the-neck "someone is watching me" tingly feeling.

Lelei nodded at Angelo and the two went back to their patrol for the night.

Fortunately for the two of them, the almost-fight between the drunk boys proved to be the worst that they would encounter that night. There were a few minor incidents that were taken care-of on the spot, which generally amounted to them helping a civilian with some chore or pointing them in the right direction. It was all the kind of stuff anyone could have assisted with, but two officers were the most inviting to ask.

During the down times, Lelei got to know Angelo some more and he found himself growing to like him a lot. Lelei even started feeling comfortable with revealing a little bit about his personal life and showing off some of the cute pictures he had taken of his pseudo-boyfriend/boytoy. None of the dirty stuff of course.