​Despite the lights and eyes that bore into him on such occasions, the young man found himself rather at peace among the yelling swarms of faces and flashing lenses. While some may have attributed it to the fact that he’d been in the spotlight for over five years now, his comfort levels had flatlined, and although there were still plenty of unusual situations in which he could fine himself, there were few that offered a feeling of shock when it came to award shows.

While there were a variety of other opportunities for the public to glare and stare at him—the eccentric rapper from the group scorched by their predecessors—it seemed that they took a special kind of pleasure in picking him apart on the red carpet. He’d made the mistake of reading comments online after an awards show towards the beginning of Legion’s career, a misstep that not only awakened his otherwise dormant inhibition, one that led him to avoid reading comments for nearly six months. Perhaps it was for the best, some had said, while others criticized him, claiming he clearly couldn’t care about Unit very much if he wasn’t frequently replying to them.

With one blade through his side, the only way he knew was forward.

As the camera lights harassed his corneas, the rapper was thankful he donned sunglasses. Offering a slight bow of thanks to the journalists, the four men were then led inside the building.

The space was abuzz with conversation and anticipation, the air so thick it was almost as if it could be sliced and divided and handed off to the individuals that were producing the nearly palpable excitement.

Head swiveling to returning his attention to his group, the blonde realized rather suddenly that he was—for whatever strange reason—now alone. Well, “alone” in the sense that the rest of Legion was nowhere to be seen, swallowed by the humming and bustling crowd. Doing a slight spin, the rapper turned about, only to step on someone else’s foot.

“Excuse me,” he said, an apologetic sentiment thick on the words as dyed brows furrowed upwards.