Kaze's habits have changed visibly in recent days. Instead of spending all of his time on physical and magical fight training and conditioning, he has been out a lot of evenings, saying he is either going to church or to school. He has spent a lot of the time that he is home, out in the common, open area either reading or with thick paper spread out, practicing ink brush stroke calligraphy, Japanese characters. He has also practiced using the ink brush for Atlantean runes.

His reading material has been varied, and he tends to have several books nearby, and reads for hours at a time, switching back and forth through different books. Some of the titles that he has read most consistently have been "Mosby's Paramedic Textbook", "The Bible", "The Art of War by Sun Tzu", "The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life", and "Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence".

He has also been bringing in and installing live house plants in nooks and corners of the firehouse. Snake Plant and Peace Lilly as well as Aloe Plants and English Ivy have been some that he is now cultivating in their decorative pots around the shared abode. As part of his 'nurturing' of the plant life, he has been serenading them with song and playing a ukulele occasionally. His ability level is so so, like an amateur with some talent that has not thus far been developed very far.