Tandy Bowen doesn't have to pick between (cloakndagger) wrote in repose,
Re: The Woods: Pesha/Tandy
Tandy really liked the whole thing about averages. It was comforting, that you could have weird shit as outliers, but added to the comprehensive mass of normal, the whole thing smoothed out and you could mostly ignore the weird shit. He was getting the impression weird was way more of an 'oh, okay' mindset here, which was cemented when the kid appeared to be absent a lighter. The other thing the law of averages took care of, the height differential. Which was sizeable. Pesha climbed out of his chair and nabbed his backpack and this felt a little surreal. Tandy was used to being tall. It wasn't a thing, past the original tired set of opening gambits, like 'you should play basketball'. Hand-eye coordination for anything involving moving balls was sort of not remotely there, so he wasn't missing out on serious career potential.
But if he'd wanted to know what being five-four in line with the current ID he had was actually like, this guy probably knew the ins and outs. Tandy obviously, showed none of this on his face. He was blond and inscrutable and he kind of wanted the wool knit cap he had been wearing yesterday but had tossed into the corner of the room before he had flipped. Moments called for pulling said cap over your ears, and this was one such moment.
"Tandy," Tandy confirmed. He hadn't exactly got a low low voice, but the voice was in proportion with the height. "Pesha," he didn't know if it was meant to be pronounced some way but if it was a weird thing to call someone, he was Tandy. He didn't have a lot of road, you know? The trailer was a blast, and he was kind of into it even if he was running on little energy and a lot of shell-shock. It looked like the kind of place he would have killed to have had as a kid.
"Noted," he said, ducking on his way in. Inside was considerably warmer, and also there was stuff literally everywhere. It wasn't messy, it was just like literally everywhere had something to look at and Tandy who tried not to give out that he was looking, was checking every surface out. He could maybe remember some of it for later, when he could make the best use of the cheap art supplies girl!Tandy had around and figure out his next move at the old house.