Highroller could still hear the circus music as he walk towards the circus's living quarters to look for the zebras.
I'm surprise no one is trying to stop me. Highroller thought, expecting at least a few guards to be around the circus. This definitely a place where you want to hide your secrets. Then again, they don't know what I want.
He was able to pass by one of the small, colorful tents when he suddenly heard someone crying from one of the tents. Peeking into the light green tent with its small tear, Highroller was able to see the Deforrmed Diva crying inside a small cage.
Does anyone wish that I were alive?
So undesirable I am in this body?
Highroller suddenly notice "Double Stripes" entering the tent, causing the Deformed Diva to stop crying and turn her head towards the zebras even though she still have the blindfold on.
Why do you look at me like that?
This face that is rotting
The Sparky Black half of "Double Stripes" slowly reach out towards the Deformed Diva and took off her blindfold, revealing her pale blue eyes, He took a bit of her, long black hair into his hoof and gently kiss it.
The deformed woman softly cried and quietly said, "It's painful." Highroller swears that her voice was painfully familiar, but her voice was a bit too weak for him to even recognize the voice's owner.
It's painful
The Sparky Black half gripped onto her hair tightly while the Sparky White half seems to be staring off into space with a small smile on his face.
It's painful
And it can't be helped
She said it
But still, we continue this circus
"I know it's painful, but it can't be helped. Since ever we've been captured, we've been through awful experiments by those... I'm not even sure what they are, but they're definitely no humans." Sparky Black said. "Look at what they did to us! Look at what they did to my brother..."
Highroller look at Sparky White to see what Sparky Black means by that.
It's fun. So fun!
This circus is so fun
Rotten fruit, to dissolve my eyes
My skin festers, reflected on my eyes
Sparky White let out a chuchkle and said, "The circus is not that bad. You just have to get used to it."
Sparky Black, at first, bitterly look at his brother, but soon softened up.
"See?" Sparky Black said. "...No one deserves this. Not even you, and you're our enemy."
Highroller tried his best to think who this woman is, but his mind just becomes a complete blank yet there was something hurting his brain.
I want to die
Want to die
Sparky Black look at the tent's entrance and said, "Sorry, but we have to go."
As the zebra twins slowly walk out of here, the woman let out a soft sob and said, "Please, don't go..."
Highroller swears that the woman was looking straight at him as he quickly walk away from it. He can hear the woman crying though the former jester was at a good distance away from the tent.
Get me out of here, please
It is impossible for anyone to say and feel
he slowly back away from the light green tent. He doesn't know what to do. Just drag the zebras out of here? Possibly ask Twin Master for help? He almost felt desperate.
Highrollr was honestly afraid of these circus people, especially of what they did to their performers.
"The body is distorted in order to bend to that twisted figure." Highroller felt like he couldn't breathe, remembering that voice before.
"To crawl on the illuminated street with paper lanterns."A hand covered his mouth although Highroller wasn't too sure what to say at all.
"Everyone knows the feeling of walking down the street." The ringmaster bend down to rest her chin on Highroller's shoulder. "This child has to cower alone."
The ringmaster widen fer smile as she continued, "I guess the shadows reach long, but the friends that talk have their waists aligned."
The former jester didn't know what to do, hearing footsteps behind them.
"You are later and before and by yourself." The ringmaster practically purred in his ear, sending uneasy shivers down his back.
"Oh, you're here, you're here!" A voice shouted behind them. Highroller couldn't feel anything as the ringmaster gently grab his chin and him awkwardly look up at her face.
Her doll-like face now features cracks on her left cheek like a broken porcelain doll, and her green eyes were now a bright red, almost glowing. Looking at him with a wide smile, she said, "Drop by and see them."
Highroller remembers those words before.
"Drop by and see them." The ringmaster repeated.
Suddenly, his vision slowly darkens when he notice a tall figure behind last thing he heard before his vision completely turned black was, in almost a whisper, "Drop by, to the Dark Woods."
In a small town near the woods, a group of circus people stood in the middle of it, trying to grab the attention of the humans and the animals.
Next to the ringmaster was the newest member of their circus, though he does seem to be a bit out of place. This new member was just a jester dressed in bright red with black and red roses on the tips of his hat.
As he hand out flyers for the circus with a smile on his face, all he say is, "It's fun..."