And there it was: trouble.

Time to de-escalate the situation before things went wildly out of control.

Six nudged his way through the crowd, scowling at the obvious Meta. "I told you to stick close."

One of the crowd members asked hotly, "He's with you?"

"Yes." Six looked back over his shoulder at the source. "Is there a problem with that?"

The offender took a step back at Six's general aura of "push me and you will deeply regret it".

Mentally, Six prayed the kid was smart enough to play along.