Tandy Bowen doesn't have to pick between (cloakndagger) wrote in repose,
Re: Tandy/Rey
Tandy was speaking in the abstract. He didn't know the game at all, but that seemed largely irrelevant. The game was a game and Tandy's hand-eye coordination was better when it came to painting, sketching or even cartooning. The girl who answered was taller than average, which put her maybe at Tandy's shoulder, maybe a little lower. He was getting expert at eyeball-descriptors, and she was low-key, in general: voice, dress, the intro. Tandy was cool with low-key, in a way it was preferable to high-octane people. They required a lot of reflecting or refracting back, unlike Billy who was somehow containable octane, who preferred the solidity of low-key consistently co-existing.
Comparatively rooting the girl - Rey - in his frame of reference, Tandy put his hand back on the controller and offered an easy, if moderate smile. "I've not played this one so you're basically going on fundamental ability to play a game at all," he said, congenially. "I'm Tandy, and I used to be super into games, but this is no longer my reason for living. I'm not new, I'm a local." Which was technically true, if you swapped out a couple contingent parts. Tandy didn't think about it.
"The big houses?" One eyebrow curled upward. "They're out of towners, too?" No judgment. The local economy hinged on the influx of money in summer.