Benjamin Proctor (solasanguis) wrote in st_margarets, @ 2014-03-21 11:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: ashton hartley, character: ben proctor, location: sphinx dorm |
Log: Value of Gold
WHO: Ben Proctor and Ashton Hartley
WHEN: March 13, 2014 [Backdated]
WHERE: Ben’s dorm
Gold coins instead of a car, deposits into his personal debit card account - these things replaced his parents’ direct involvement in his life. The last eleven months were a tangled rope ladder. And he had found these gold coins that he loved years ago. That Spanish doubloon was still missing in action. That one held more sentimentality. But in the end - they were only pieces of precious metal pressed into disks.
Ben sat on his bed with the eight 1924 Double Eagles and six lunar coins spread out over a blanket. He had removed each one from the clear plastic sleeves and polished them with a facial tissue. Soon they would go back into the drawstring bag he found them and into the box to rest on the top shelf of his closet.