Tandy Bowen doesn't have to pick between (cloakndagger) wrote in repose,
Re: The Woods: Pesha/Tandy
There was a way way large void between the tight-assed version of Presbyterian whatever that his dad had probably grown up in, and the kind of faith that took in culture that wasn't a bunch of uptight assholes on boats decimating native populations, or whatever. But whatever it was, Tandy hadn't baked in it. His cultural traditions were essentially putting up a tree once a year and hitting up the grocery store after Easter for cut-price candy. Which was one way of cutting your teeth in the post-pubescent landscape of conspicuous consumption.
Whatever, his head like - really hurt - and having his hand over the place he'd just cracked on a beam or a ceiling or whatever, he wasn't looking, wasn't 100% helpful but he had it there anyway as he stepped out of the warm dusk of the trailer into the cooler, blacker night. "The finer points of the ecclesiastical education were not a talking point at dinner," Tandy said, around his palm, his voice muffled. "It wasn't the major selling point, but it's a public high school, you take what you're given."
But Sabrina clearly wasn't from Kansas, Toto and Tandy didn't care he was severely mixing his metaphors, if not total genres. Sabrina was kind of giving off the city-kid thing in waves the second he mentioned his parents and if the camper van hadn't been a total giveaway of a leaning toward the liberal side of the scale anyway. In Repose -- in Tandy's Repose, a course-correction he was kinda getting the sense he was going to have to make over and over, you just weren't loud and out and proud about being weird. It just ...wasn't something you did.
"My head is going to survive, and I think applying ice after dark in winter is probably going to result in hypothermia," he let his hand drop, and the skin on his forehead, near his hairline was pink and was probably going to bruise, but whatever, it wasn't like Tandy's day was really going according to the plan when he went to bed last night.