Ebenezar McCoy || Free For All

[theblackstaff]

[Ebenezar is standing in the empty space where the Adler Planetarium used to be, staring up at the models of the planets that still hang in the space, held up and suspended by nothing more than air]

Don't matter how many times I see it, stars and stones that ain't right.

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And here I thought I'd never have a use for this journal again...

[raith_bastard]

"Oh! That's so cool!" Thomas gaped at the models. "It's like the mobile at the museum, only...cooler!"

He was eight, dark hair messy in the way that little boys manage and big blue eyes fixed on the planets.

[theblackstaff]

Ebenezar looked down at the sound of the voice and nearly dropped his staff. He knew the boy. Had seen him decades ago. And it reminded him of just how far he'd failed, knowing what kind of monster man that child hand grown up to be because his kin had failed him and his blood had not.

He sighed silently and gripped his staff. "Aye." His voice was thick, and he coughed, as if it gave him an excuse. "Where's your parents, boy?"

[raith_bastard]

Thomas shrugged. "Dunno. Pop's probably off doing something boring. Or out with his newest girlfriend." They were all just girlfriends. None of them had stuck around long enough to be more than that. "Or letting her coo over Inari or something."

[theblackstaff]

He snorted at the answer. "Expect that's for the best." Ebenezar offered the boy a calloused hand. "But you best be with an adult, boy. Ain't the place for a child to be wanderin' off."