>>6330753Exhaling a long breath from your nose, you rise to your feet and break your gaze, heading back to the bead curtain. Emerging back into the main bar, you hear the mic has passed on to some young woman singing a very faithful rendition of Let The Sunshine In by Jennifer Warnes. You scan the bar, and see that it's thinned out to only a handful of patrons now, atomized in different places across the room. You order a drink to your table before moving on.
When you head back into the karaoke parlor, you notice that Vincent isn't seated at your booth, and he wasn't in the bar. You pause at the top of the steps, but head in anyways, and sit back where you were. After a minute or so, your drink arrives, but still no sign of Vince.
<span class="mu-g">"Wyatt, call V for me."</span> You instruct. You hear the line ring in your earpiece, but no one picks up, his voice message folder is maxed out on storage so you aren't prompted to leave one.
>Order another Hawaiian to the table as Vince asked, and wait for him to return; he probably just went to the bathroom or stepped out for a call.>Maybe he ditched you because you left during his song, he can certainly be a bit of a diva sometimes. Just as well, you can move on to finding some patches to help pay Sawtooth.>Search for Vincent, you'd at least like to say goodbye, but were hoping to hear more about this shoe heist of his. >Write-in 