Meet Ethan
It is late, not so late that it’s early, but to be specific, it is just past midnight, and held in front of Ethan is a heavily marked-up and thumbed-through printout of Engel v. Vitale. He’d been studying it relentlessly like some sort of manic gambler, scanning over a losing scratch ticket trying to square the circle and will the numbers into a winning alignment, but so far, he had no luck, and there’s been no luck for a while now. There had been an incident during movie night a number of weeks back. As some sort of symbolic gesture, Ethan had begun to quietly boycott the Discord server until late one evening, when he gave it the dreaded French exit altogether. October had come and gone before anyone had noticed his departure, and when someone did, theories were debated for all of an hour before it slipped from the server zeitgeist; there were far more important things to tend to, for instance, the upcoming 2...