gismo wrote:
I'd travel, trying to find others like me...
In the 1970s, he'll find an old man born in 1300. It turns out the angel chooses a random boy and girl to conduct this experiment on, once a century.
This is part of a summation I saved to MS Word that speaks more about this encounter:
A summation about the encounter wrote:
This boy meets an old man who landed in the same predicament in the Middle Ages
Circa 1975 or later, an old man (appearing about 77 years old or older), learns about this boy (either in an academic publication, or some source), and becomes acquainted with him. After meeting somewhere (undecided), he asks him, “Would you believe me if I told you I was almost 700 years old?” The boy tells him, “I probably would, assuming you give off knowledge that only a 700-year-old would know, and other factors that would truly convince. Would you believe me if I told you that a spirit’s spell stopped my body’s aging at age 10, and that I’m really over 70?” The surprised old man now knows they’re in the same predicament. “That is just what happened to me, young man. Or should it be “old boy?” What you prefer is best.” Then he visits the old man’s home to look at artifacts from George Washington, other historical figures, events, etc. and be told of stories from earlier in the medieval man’s life, advice for how to live the rest of the boy’s prolonged life, and etc. Either the same spirit or generational relatives thereof visited them both.
Later, it turns out (and they learn somehow) that the spirit (or these spirits) visit two people per century, a boy and a girl, who were born at the turn of each century, on their 10th birthdays. They give them the same spells given to this boy, so there are others, albeit hard to find on such a huge Earth. They’re from any random country, and the old man the boy meets was born in Russia, lived in Europe, Africa, and Europe again, and immigrated to America from Britain in the 1720s.
I have not yet decided when the unaging boy will meet the girl who was born in his year and suffered the same spell.
zghost wrote:
That's a hard one. Too young to pass for old enough to legally do anything, I see no real choice but to live in the streets or run away from a series of orphanages. Can't get a place to live, drive, work....
Maybe if he froze at 15, he could pretend to be older and get a fake ID, but no way can 10 pass for 18.
DYK: There was no firm minimum age to drive until 1940. He would have to scrape up the cash for his own car in the meantime.
He does both- he may live on the streets for a while, then when he finds some compassionate souls at a church, he'll fabricate that his house burned down when he slept over at a friend's, the whole family died, and he couldn't live with his friend anymore when they moved away. So a family adopts him for a while. He will pass himself off as 8 in the beginning of that stay so he can stay a little longer. Then when they suspect that he seems to never get any older, he runs away again to keep the truth confidential.
The boy may also get picked up by some authority and placed in an orphanage. Then he'll soon need to run again for the same reasons.
He doesn't freeze at 15 until the 2050s. Remember he ages one year for every 10 after 2000.
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19 Dec 2008, 11:59 am
