HELLGOAT Rides Again

Spectral Evidence #2

by Kitty Burroughs, A.K. Parker

• Bence Kardos has been told that he’s lucky. He’s an Alpha, an old legacy with strong ties to Maillardet’s first class. At the same time, he has a lot of soft spots he has to cover. His severe learning disability has left him on the bubble, a maybe for Capstone when his preordained path had him scribbled in as a hard yes. His parents are Anubis, and they won’t accept anything but excellence. They’ve molded him, and there is literally no fighting when both his mother and father are purple-bands who don’t see anything wrong with using their powers to “correct” the parts of him they don’t like.

• Unbeknownst to Bence, his relationship with his Beta, Louis Song, has stoked the coals of a century-long grudge match. In one corner, we have Bence’s namesake: the strapping huntsman who planted the seeds and built the wall. In the other corner seethes the ghost of Louis’s namesake: his great-grandmother, a schoolteacher with fifty pounds of beef for all things Foundation.

• The only thing standing between these warring ghosts and the students is Father Joe Blake, the youngest Set member. He’s really new to all of this (and isn’t 100% sure how to keep spirits from suplexing each other), but he will definitely try his best.

• Issue 2 of 5, Rated T

• WARNING: This work contains themes of parental gaslighting and internalized homophobia.

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First published September 30, 2017