NOTE: Due to the fact that Artie lives in an alternate world, I'm taking a few liberties with history. The encounter cited in this ficlet actually took place after an event that occurred in 1915, three years before Artie was born. As a result, I'm moving it up to 1921, when Artie was three years old.
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He would never forget the eyes. Those were the one thing he remembered most clearly about the encounter... )