Chapter 4
The days had past, and I had gotten to know the other freaks and backstage workers. We'd all become like a family. The only person I didn't like was a guy named Bradley Stretch. He always played cruel practical jokes on everyone. Cormac told me that Bradley wasn't a bad guy, he just does bad things. Actually, when he wasn't playing jokes, he was really nice. I started to think he had some sort of multiple personality disorder.
I was enjoying the cirque. And I was about to enjoy it even more. One morning while I was eating breakfast, Mr. Tall seemed to come out of nowhere and asked, "Evra, would you like to prepare an act?" "What for?" I asked. "We are performers," Mr. Tall answered, "We have late night shows. Our next show is tomorrow night. Would you like to be in it?" I was so excited about this I forgot that I had no clue about what I would do. I just yelled, "Hell yeah!"
After Cormac ad I finished up with chores, I went out into the nearby forest. I needed the time to think about my act. Then, it came to me. Literally. I heard a hissing sound. At first, I thought it was my imagination. But I continued to hear it. Then, a snake lunged out at me. I managed to dodge it by being a split-second faster than it. She looked angry. I tried to calm her down by talking to her. The words that came out of my mouth sounded like snake hissing. I think that J.K. person called it, "parseltounge."
Anyway, the snake took a liking to me and started playing with me. After a while, I had it. This was gonna be my act. I ran over my idea with Cormac. "Not bad Evra," he said, "The crowds will go wild for something like that." We decided to tell Mr. Tall so he could schedule it into the show. But someone had beaten us to his trailer. It was a guy with carrot orange hair and a scar running down his face. He carried a cage with a huge spider in it. I had never seen him in the cirque before, but I could tell that Cormac knew him.
"Who's that," I asked. "That is Larten Crepsly and his performing spider, Madame Octa. Come on. I'll introduce you." "What!" I yelled. I didn't know why at the time, but there was something about Crepsly that freaked me out. And that's coming from a freak that lives with freaks. Crepsly just seemed sort of……. dead.
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