Owen looked at the card, and confirmed the address was correct. Place sure didn't look like much, but he figured he didn't have much to lose. He walked up the steps and knocked at Madame Xanadu's door.
Madame Xanadu's little shop on Christy Street, in Greenwich Village, had been there for years. A tiny little slip of a thing, it didn't always attract customers, though on the sign on the door invited those who sought knowledge to enter
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Interesting, that he does the gentlemanly thing here in her shop. Not many men would do that. Most, trembling, would stand around awkwardly until Xanadu bid them to sit in the chair across from hers. Still, she gives Owen a wan half-smile, alluring enough, certainly, to pique his interest, but small enough to let the man wonder if she had truly smiled at him or not.
Xanadu picks up her deck of cards, still as beautiful as the day she had created them despite their many centuries of use, and shuffles them.
"You have come seeking answers," she says. "But I should like to hear from you what it is you seek."
He's at least sixty percent sure that was a smile, even if he was a little distracted by things besides her face as she practically floated across the room.
Owen seats himself and watches her handle the cards.
"I'd like to know who my mother is.. my biological one, I mean. I thought I knew for a while, but then that got debunked. Now I'm flying blind again. My dad's the only one who knew, and he's gone now."
Owen looked around. He supposed this was as good a spot in the park as any. Plenty of open room, and highly visible. He took out a few practice and 'civvy' level trick boomerangs, and started some of his practice routines. He held back on his speed for a while. As unpredictable as it was, he was pretty sure by now he knew how to not make it happen.
Someone this proficient in boomerangs in Keystone is sure to raise some attention, right? Even if they're just minding their own business.
Now he just had to wait for one of the number of options to show up. Geezer-Flash, Standard Flash, Baby Flash, Flash To the Future, Flash to the Future Part 2, Math-Flash, Lady Math-Flash, or the Wizard of Flash There were sure enough of them to go around.
Barry Allen was shaking hands with an elderly black woman on the steps of her house. He'd insisted on reopening some of the cold cases at the precinct, and new forensic evidence had lead to the release of her grandson from jail for a crime he didn't commit
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Owen's hands never lost the steady and precise rhythm they'd fallen into, even as he felt himself being watched. He eyed the man carefully for a few more skillful repetitions, before catching both returning boomerangs and stowing them in a bag. He reached into his jacket and withdrew a black boomerang that looked like it carried a bit more heft to it. One side seemed, if one was close enough to it or had a particularly keen eye, to be severely sharpened; a flat finish of paint mostly concealed the differences
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Barry started at the blatant display of challenge. There was no mistaking it, those were the razor sharp boomarangs of Captain Boomarang! Barry Allen wasn't about to take that lying down Digger Harkness was a cold-hearted criminal, a member of the imfamous Rogues!
In an instant, faster than the eye could see, Barry was a crackling blur, his flash ring opening, allowing oxygen to expand his special suit, and Barry Allen became The Flash! He rushed completely around the park to flank the criminal, and skidded to a halt behind him, but was shocked to find the man far younger than he had expected. This wasn't Digger at all, but his son and protégé Owen!
So much has changed since I've been away.
"Not bad," said the Flash from behind the young man, "Owen Harkness I presume, or do you prefer Mercer?"
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"Yes ma'am..." He grins, as it takes him a moment to remember why he's here. Or at least the first reason he was here.
He crosses the room at her bidding, and holds out what he assumes is her chair for her.
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Xanadu picks up her deck of cards, still as beautiful as the day she had created them despite their many centuries of use, and shuffles them.
"You have come seeking answers," she says. "But I should like to hear from you what it is you seek."
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Owen seats himself and watches her handle the cards.
"I'd like to know who my mother is.. my biological one, I mean. I thought I knew for a while, but then that got debunked. Now I'm flying blind again. My dad's the only one who knew, and he's gone now."
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Someone this proficient in boomerangs in Keystone is sure to raise some attention, right? Even if they're just minding their own business.
Now he just had to wait for one of the number of options to show up. Geezer-Flash, Standard Flash, Baby Flash, Flash To the Future, Flash to the Future Part 2, Math-Flash, Lady Math-Flash, or the Wizard of Flash There were sure enough of them to go around.
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In an instant, faster than the eye could see, Barry was a crackling blur, his flash ring opening, allowing oxygen to expand his special suit, and Barry Allen became The Flash! He rushed completely around the park to flank the criminal, and skidded to a halt behind him, but was shocked to find the man far younger than he had expected. This wasn't Digger at all, but his son and protégé Owen!
So much has changed since I've been away.
"Not bad," said the Flash from behind the young man, "Owen Harkness I presume, or do you prefer Mercer?"
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