"Okay Kai, Wait here."
As Kai watches Kevin walk into the woods, a faint smell of tacos hits his nose.
'Sniff Sniff'
Kai quickly turns towards the heavenly smell.
'A taco truck! I must've been too focused on the other smells if I didn't notice heaven!'
He jumps off his bike and makes his way across the street to where the truck is.
Once he gets close he sees a group of humans standing in his way.
"Move!" He says, patiently.
Kevin told the team not to make a scene
The humans turn towards Kai as if he said something ridiculous. Probably because a random guy showed up and tries to intimidate a group of hungry construction workers into giving up their place in line for tacos.
Kai's stomach begins to grumble.
'I don't like to drink human blood, but if they keep standing around I'll use them as an appetizer.'
"Move!" He says again, impatiently.
They start laughing as if he told them a joke, before turning back to the truck.
"Next?" the truck worker calls, having just handed over a set of piping hot tacos.
Kai couldn't be polite anymore, and he pushed the humans aside, "Give me 2 chicken tacos and 5 beef tacos, and Ima grab..." looking at the Chips they have on display, "...Hot Cheetos."
He could smell the anger of the humans behind him, but… who cares.
"That'll be 25.50." The truck worker says, somewhat nervously glancing over Kai's shoulder.
One of the construction workers taps Kai on the shoulder, "Hey! What the hell d-"
Kai touches the man's hand, and faster than any of the humans can track, the man is on his back with the wind knocked out of him.
"Hmm," Kai murmurs, looking through the man's wallet.
'$40? or $60?' Looking up at the worker who's also in shock. '$60!'
"Here, keep the change."
He throws the wallet back at its owner who is still on the ground, and everyone stands around in scared and awkward silence as the tacos are made. The sound of the sizzling is clear in the night.
Just a few minutes later, the worker shakily hands Kai his food from the side of the truck. "Your order, sir"
The second he grabs his food, drooling, Kevin's scent starts getting stronger.
Kai snatches a bag of Cheetos from the rack and hops over to the bikes.
'Need to hide, not share.'
"Okay, 2 of our members are dead."
"I know," Tacos Tacos Tacos.
"Let's head to Kansas now."
'I'll eat tacos while driving.'
Kevin drives off.
"Mmm," 'Just one bite.'
"Kai let's go!" Kai quickly stuffs a beef taco in his mouth before heading out, 'hmmm'-ing the whole way.
By the time they arrived at the hotel the rest of the team was staying at, Kai had finished all his tacos and was hungry again. Kevin immediately called a meeting, giving Kai no time to dip out and grab something.
'Luckily for me, I saved my Cheetos.'
Two Cheetos in, "When did you buy those?"
'Ugh... I was just enjoying the Cheetos before he opened his mouth.'
"Today,"
'Ask dumb questions, get dumb answers.'