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All too often Kim got lost in his own thoughts. Since his own thoughts were almost always of music, he found himself lost in the random soundtrack of his own life at times. Headphones in as he walked downtown it started with just a nod of his head and graduated to the tapping of his hands on his jeans to the beat of the music. A short time later and the rest of his body followed suit and he was half-dancing, half-walking along the street.

If he had been aware of it Kim would have been mortified. In his everyday life he did his best to not draw attention to himself. If he could be invisible, that would be awesome. Unfortunately that wasn't the sort of thing he was capable of.

He didn't even notice what was going on until he was rounding a corner on the street and almost ran into someone also turning the corner. Kim quickly skipped and spun out of the way to avoid the collision, feeling his stomach sink when he realized what he was doing.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry," he said, pulling off his headphones and holding out a hand to steady the person he had almost run into. "I- I'm so sorry, I, uh, I wasn't looking where I was going."

[Be the person he almost bumped into or just witness him dance-walking down the street.]

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"Great." He types it in, then pauses at the Contact screen. "I haven't gotten your name, I apologize - I'm Wren." He texts the number with a 'and now you have mine'.

He takes a breath and presses his lips together thoughtfully at that question, smiling tentatively. "On the one hand, it's a little soon to answer that. A little raw, still. But I know myself. I love performing, I love collaboration and playing off of other people. So probably, yes, eventually, if the opportunity came along."

Kim smiled as the guy texted him back. It was cool to have someone local as a contact who as also into music. Sometimes it was hard to geek about about your passions when you were so involved in them. Wren seemed like a guy he could really talk to though.

"That's good. I, uh, I just recently left my band. I loved them all but it just got to be so much and I wasn't sure if that's what I really wanted."

"It can be a lot," Wren says, though he personally can't imagine stopping, by choice. Even now, missing Rian and Lex and the ideas they used to bounce off each other, he's been writing nonstop. But then, he did ping a bit of recognition at this guy's face, and he doesn't think he got the same reaction, which might mean so much is a little more to him than it is to Wren. He doesn't keep up - sort of intentionally, as a way to try and keep his influences as pure as possible - with modern hit music. "Would I have heard of you? Your band, I mean?"

"Maybe," Kim said with a shrug. If the guy wasn't into mainstream music at all then there was a chance he wouldn't. A lot of people hated them because they were played on pop music stations. It didn't matter how good they were, if they were played alongside pop music they weren't worth anything.

"Phoenix Falling? They're still around, I still write for them I just don't play with them. Kind of a Brian Williams thing, I guess."

Oh.. Wren nods in recognition. He does intentionally remove himself from radio music when he's writing, which is most of the time, but it's more to try to remove himself from subtle influence, not really for a lack of appreciation for some of it. There's a difference, between music that's been sanitized, rewritten or handed off for the amusement of an unchallenged crowd, and music that's simply accessible or liked because it's good. It would be nearly impossible to keep up with press during the last few years without stumbling upon the name Phoenix Rising. From what he can recall, he's enjoyed their theatricality and harmonies. There's an ambition to it he can appreciate, even if it's not quite what he feels compelled to create himself.

"I won't say I'm a rabid fanboy," Wren says, smiling. "But I've heard of them." Pronouns get weird talking about bands and writing. "I've liked what I've heard. Living under a microscope not so much your thing?" he asks with a bit of a smile. Enfants Sauvages were never quite that level of famous, but it was still tiring being expected to be present for certain things, having people speculate on his life online or asked to dissect his own music.

"I didn't like being 'on' all the time," Kim admitted, flattered that the guy didn't think they were too bad. A lot of people thought they were too "pop" or at least too mainstream to actually be good. As if people liking them meant they weren't good. Didn't a lot of people like Mozart and Beethoven?

"Performing was fun and being a rock star was kind of a fun role but I didn't want to do it all the time. I just want to write and perform music, that's all."