"Yes, she and Harry were looking at something in a nearby stall." Alvin looked back off in that direction, but only caught a swirl of her purple skirts. The pair of them must have seen something else that caught their attention. Alvin thought it was a little suspicious, he assumed Sloane would have liked to say hi to Sisse, but perhaps they really were distracted.

"I'm not exactly sure what they're up to." Harry was better to handle Sloane in the Park anyway. Alvin couldn't look at the lake for too long without getting the shivers and the memories of that summer day overwhelmed him. Even now he had to consciously avoid looking over at the water to keep it off his mind. "I'm not sure I've ever seen such an event, it's a little perplexing, but at least it's nice out." The whole mermaid race thing was weird, but he wasn't about to complain, not now. "Are your brothers around?" Alvin wasn't so sure what the Thompsett brothers thought of him and his sometimes-presence at events.