Kaidan had never liked Halloween. At least, not that he could remember. Not since a friend had dressed up and scared him shitless. In front of his classmates, his mentor. He had been given harder work for screaming and waking everyone. It had been embarrassing then, and while it stung less now, he still remembered it.

Nowadays he had different reasons for not liking it. He was a grown man; he had no business running around dressed up and eating candy. All the flashing lights, the children yelling all night, the people gathering and talking and moving and -- frankly, it gave him a migraine.

So naturally, when asked what his plans were for the evening, he responded with a resounding “Absolutely nothing.”