Prompt 16.07

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Five surprising things the original deep-background check on Daniel turned up (and who knows about them now).

Comments

[vain_glorious]

1. When he was 13, he ran away from his foster home and got halfway to China before the authorities caught him in an East German airport. He spoke with a West Berliner accent, and it gave him away more than the part where he didn’t have papers or a ticket or luggage or parents

[advection]

Oh, these are awesome! I especially like the chilling last line in #1, and the offhand way it mentions that a West Berliner accent tipped off the authorities, with the underlying unspoken implication that this 13-year-old boy was fluent in a lot of languages and spoke German with no English accent at all -- just the wrong German accent for the situation ... that's so cool. I also love the extra family members that not even Daniel knows about, and why he doesn't know about them, and the portrait of Elaine that emerges from #5.

This was my prompt, so extra super thanks for writing this one, and writing such interesting possibilities for Daniel's background.

[beanpot]

Loved the image of Daniel having a Bar Mitzvah, if only because it shows someone seems to have cared about him. And 5 is just...ouch.

[dhae_knight]

Wow, these are all *so* great! I'll just second Paian's comments... 'cause they're so much better than anything I could've thought up...