Drabble: "Fortunate Son"

Title: "Fortunate Son"
Rating: G
Summary: In response to the "Fortune" prompt at blackpearlsails, about Marty the pirate.
Disclaimer: Hardly mine. Would I be writing drabbles to pass the time if I had that kind of money?
A/N: Dedicated to the_dala, a fan who loves the little characters - literal and figurative - as much as the main ones. *G*


He didn’t remember when he stopped growing, but he was just five days shy of his tenth birthday when Da was stabbed, Mum having long earned her wings in childbirth.

Ruthlessly begging, Marty managed not to starve until he was taken in as part of a traveling con – treated worse than the caged bear, but fed and left to practice. As a knife-thrower, perhaps he could someday earn his way as a talented curiosity.

Escaping arrest at fourteen, Fortune instead let him earn the respect of the sea’s misfits and become their average citizen, rather than half a respectable freak.