New Players In The Pattern

[Aiden Finnegan]

“Oh! Well, that makes sense. The tennis ball machines just threw me off. The way he uses them kinda sounds like that old ass movie Star Wars… Was that your source of inspiration? If you haven’t see the movie yet, it’s awesome. We’ll have to pull it up on your computer or something,” Aiden took a harder look at the wall. There was a strange film over it. “What’s the stuff on the wall? Flame retardant?”

                Sage lead him deeper into the ‘Dojo,’ showing off Nox’s space and then finally his own. It was plain, which Aiden had assumed. Sage made the internet sound like his life, and really did his surroundings matter that much if he was just constantly in a VR heaven? Lasher chased after Nova, around the bed and out of the room, no doubting bolting around the spacious basement.

                Aiden looked at the bed and wiggled an eyebrow at Sage. “Well, you know I’d love to help you if you ever wanted to spruce the place up. A couple of pictures, a plant or two, maybe a desk and chair… That would definitely brighten this place up. I kinda assumed you’d have this huge monitor that took up the entire wall. Kinda like Batman, I mean you guys kinda already have a Batcave already. Then again, you probably don’t need a monitor, do you?”He loved pop culture, especially the stuff that came out in the 90’s and then the aughts. Not everyone caught Aiden’s references to those things, however. Not everyone was eager to watch the older classics, not with all of the advanced visual technology that had grown leaps and bounds since then.