Carnival Girl
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When Victoire was nine, Bill and Fleur took her to a carnival.
They left her to wander around by herself, letting her drift between grotesque groups of clowns and children who didn't know how to be quiet. Victoire cast disdainful looks at them all, thinking how immature they were, but tears welled in her eyes when their parents ushered them away.
Her parents didn't come for her.
Darkness was falling, and Victoire stood silent in the centre of the whole affair, listening to tinny music and watching garish lights spin before her eyes, and she had never felt so alone.
