#callum lindsey

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Features: Callum Lindsey, Victoria Aragon, Warren Hughes

Just a quick quiet moment for the team I was playing with to get an idea of their dynamics with one another. (Side Note: I haven’t totally settled on the names for the characters in Oracle yet so those might change later on still.)

“Fuck,” Cal’s soft curse breaks the semi-quiet that had fallen on the room, semi because Tori had put one of her baking competitions on to watch in the background.

“What’s wrong?” Warren asks.

As far as they were aware, Cal had been sitting on the couch playing some retro video game that one of the others had lent him while Tori’d taken over the other table at the back of the room to do the weapons maintenance for the entire team.

“I’m down to my last life,” Cal groans dramatically. “And I can’t get past this level – the knight is going to die, forgotten, broken at the bottom of a canyon filled with pixel dragons and griffins and his lady love will go un-rescued, turned forever to stone by the evil sorcerer. And darkness shall rule the kingdom forever more.”

Tori gets up to throw herself on the couch next to him, “Give it.”

“He won’t learn if you do it for him,” Warren comments – smiling faintly at their papers as Tori flips them the bird in response.

“What?”

“Give it here,” she wriggles her fingers at the handheld game in a classic ‘grabby-hands’ motion.

“Wait, really?”

“Your sad-puppy look is too much for me. Now, gives it.”

“Awesome,” he beams, handing over the device and leaning close to watch as the music for the level starts up again. “Wait – that’s how you do that?”

“Mhmm,” Tori grins as the tinny noise of triumph signals that Cal’s knight has reached the summit of the level. “Here you go. Next level’s all yours.”

“Tori – you are a video game goddess,” Cal declares. “You are the best team mate ever!”

“Yeah, yeah, don’t mention it,” Tori pokes him in the ribs before going back to the table and her alarmingly large collection of weapons. “Seriously, I got a reputation to maintain.”