When chiaki and Chisa opened the door to the next train car, they found it looked like the one they travelled on since the beginning except for one thing. Pitched in the middle of the train car was a small red and white circus tent. Looking closer, they found the red stripes of the tent were arrows that. all that originated from the top of the tent. As they drew nearer to the tent, they could hear a little voice singing. They looked into the tent to see it was much bigger on the inside. Curious, they walked into the tent.

"Have you ever been to the circus?" Chiaki asked.

"Once when I was little, but I don't think I liked it as a kid" Chisa said.

"Visitors!" The singing voice from before said.

Chiaki and Chisa looked to see a really tiny anthropomorphic fox running the ticket booth. For a little fox, he had the biggest ears like a kangaroo and the tinniest tail like a rabbit.

"Are you here to see lady Erises circus?" The little fox asked.

"I don't know" Chisa said.

"We might as well" Chiaki said," it will be like all the other spectacular things we've seen"

"It's true" the little fox said," our circus guarantees a thrilling and experience for everyone"

"Alright" Chisa said.

"Excellent, just go right in" the fox said," no payment needed, for the experiences we offer are priceless"

"Thank you" Chiaki said.

With their agreement, the little fox hopped off his stool and pulled open the curtain into the real circus. Chiaki and Chisa followed the little fox into the magnificently large ring. There dozens of Japanese lanterns lit up the tent and revealed several cages scattered about.

"By the way" the little fox said," my name is Kit and I am the leader of this lovely circus".

Chiaki looked in one of the cages to see a beast like none she had ever seen before. The beast had seven paws with ten curved claws. Its legs were long and skinny like toothpicks with a body that twisted and curled into itself. The head of the beast was long and slender with tentacles spilling out of its mouth and 19 beady little eyes that looked everywhere at once.

"What is this?" Chiaki asked.

"I don't know" kit said.

"Does it have a name?" Chisa asked.

"Oh no" Kit said," I despise names, more than I despise words"

"But you said you had a name" Chisa said.

"It's really just for your convenience" Kit said before coughing up something.

"Are you alright?" Chisa asked.

"It's nothing" kit said while taking a handkerchief to his muzzle and spitting something into it,"Now then, to the next cage"

Chisa and chiaki looked into the next cage to see a creature with a long neck made of veins and eyes. Its head was flat and long like a curved blade as it appeared to have no mouth. A liquid mass that contained a few functioning eyeballs bled out the sides of its face. While it had four legs each leg was different yet melded with the skeletal torso. Stretching out from its back was a wing of wrinkling flesh.

"How did this creature come to exist?" Chiaki asked as the eyes stared at her.

"I don't know" kit said," perhaps it just exist in a world unseen by the natural senses"

Following his sentance, kit coughed so hard that his tail seemed to split into seven. Again, kit wiped his muzzle with a blackened handkerchief. Before Chisa or Chiaki could act, kit smiled and simply ushered them to the next cage. The next cage was empty, so they moved onto another cage. When they came to the cage, it was incredibly tall and housed a similarly tall creature. Its whole body was comprised of needle thin limbs. Some thin limbs were used to stand while other limbs held lanterns on them. Somewhere in the vast collection of thin limbs was what Chisa and chiaki could only guess was the head. The supposed head only looked like a thick and pointed needle crowned with a mess of twisting and turning branches.

"Isn't it beautiful what the mind can conceive?" Kit asked.

"It's certainly interesting" Chisa said.

"Are you sure it doesn't have a name?" Chiaki asked.

"It never told me" kit said.

"Can it speak?" Chisa asked.

"Maybe it can, maybe it can't" kit said with a twitch in his ear," maybe it speaks in quivering needles, contorting it's body into letters, or spinning its limbs off till mouths come out"

"Are you okay?" Chiaki asked.

"I may or may not be okay" kit laughed," I may be a creature with a body of a spiral, I may be dead, I may be a spec of dust"

"You should sit down" Chiaki said while the fox continued to speak of what he may be.

"Such certainty" kit said just as pools of black ink welled up in his mouth," is it your anchor or your chain?"

"You're sick" Chisa said.

"Again with the certainty!" Kit shouted and projected some ink from his mouth," is it all you live for or is it all you die for?"

Before Chisa and chiaki could try to help, they noticed something under kits skin. Through out kits body, somethings poked and lifted the skin around. Chisa and chiaki stood frozen as they watched the little foxs eyes role into the back of his head.

"Yes, maybe you simple, no pitiful, no fearful creatures can never throw yourselves into the void of space" fox laughed," you need your precious gravity in order to live"

With those final words, the lumps in kits skin violently sprung forward and ripped through the fox. The things that came out of fox danced and laughed before forming into a ball above the empty remains. From the ball, arose eight fox heads with eyes rolled into the back of their heads. Their faces were long and thin and their fur was red as whine with a variety of black marking. Seven of the heads formed unusually large necks compared to the one head that had a normal neck. When the rest of the body formed it was a foxes body, but covered in bizarre black markings. Now that the body was formed, it was revealed that the seven heads were on seven tails.

"Kit?" Chiaki breathed.

"Maybe we were, maybe we never were" the fox creature laughed in eight different voices," are we a fox or are we a demon?"

As the fox creature rambled off possibilities, black ink spewed out of its mouths. The ink that spilled to the ground turned into horrifying creatures that danced and sang in broken melodies.

"Who or what are we?" The fox creature sang," are we a rock or can we fly?"

As the fox spewed more ink and absurd thoughts, Chisa and chiaki snuck over to the open flap on the other side of the tent. They passed by a few cages full of creatures only for the bars to rust away and the creatures to be free. Just when the two neared the exit, three of the fox creatures elongated heads moved to block the way.

"Let's see what we will do with you" the three heads laughed," maybe we will tear you limb from limb, maybe we will drown you in ink, or maybe we will swallow you whole to form a new head"

The black ink stained every inch of the circus ground, before veins of ink started to latch and climb up the tent. As the creature sang and danced about, they joined in a dysfunctional parade all around the tent.

"Maybe we will keep you alive as servants or attractions or pets or future meals" the fox heads laughed as one licked its lips," such unpredictability is so exciting or horrifying or arousing"

"But we are so ordinary compared to you" Chiaki said only for every creature to laugh.

"You speak with such certainty that you blind yourself into believing any little convenient lie" the fox creature laughed," perhaps it is you two who are the extraordinary ones"

"Please, let us go" Chisa begged.

"What fun possibilities could come out of that?" The fox heads asked.

"We could...come back with an army to slay you" Chiaki tried to think," or we could find a god of peace that could turn you into stone or a bird or a spec of dust"

"We see" the fox heads said," you may go, but know that we could always be everywhere or nowhere"

"Thank you" Chiaki bowed her head before running to the exit with Chisa.

"Run and be free, or don't" the fox heads laughed," For those who fall upon me may never be who they were before"

Once Chisa and chiaki left, the ink began to return into the mouths of the fox heads. The creatures returned to their cages while the fox creature absorbed every last drop of ink. When not a spec of ink remained, the fox creature contorted its body into a ball of ink. The ink that dropped from the ball, moved around a bit before starting to glue kits remains back together. After the body was put back together, the ball of black ink formed strings of ink that entered through the body's ears, eyes, nostrils, and mouth. The ink pumped into the body like blood pumping through veins, until all the ink had entered the body. Kits eyes rolled back from their sockets as he twitched his nose. Without a word, kit simply returned to the ticket booth.

...

Outside the tent, Chisa and chiaki caught their breathe. They waited for the sweat on their foreheads to dry before venturing on to the next train car.