Noise is what woke Ursi up this time and that the fact the someone threw something hard on her, most likely a can or a small rock.
Ursi fluttered her eyes open and saw that it was day time. People were crowded around the strange section of the circus. Which made her realize that it was already opening time for the circus. The time of day she dreaded the most. She shifted about in the cage and looked down at her arm and noticed a small rock next to her on the floor of the cage. Ursi only guessed that someone wasn't happy with the fact that she was sleeping instead of being weird and ugly to entertain them. It was a pretty common for people in new york to want attention on them always.
Being use to the attention from the hoarding crowd, Ursi stood up slowly and stretch her arms and back until her muscles were loose. No matter how many times she has been in the cage the metal floor was never comfy to sleep on. The again it wasn't like she slept on anything in such a long time.
"Mommy that girl has stitches all over her… is she broken?"
Ursi glanced behind her at the little boy who noticed her stitching and patches of cloth that had replaced her skin. She was almost tempted to answer the boy's question herself but the mother had beat her too it. "A human stuffed doll made from cloth and stitches and filled with stuffing of cotton can bend and twist like she has no bones, She even can feel no pain as it had been tested on. Its just like your own living teddy bear."
Ursi wanted to growl but held it back, she could feel pain. She could feel every ounce of it but she did not bleed and she did not break. Like a normal human would she was just as the sign said.
A doll.
"Mommy that girl is weird and kind of scaring looking…she has a polka dot cloth as part of her skin around her eye." The mother nodded at what the boy said like she was agreeing with him. Ursi almost scoffed and decide that she was done listening to the boy and his mother so she walked to the other side of the cage. Her chain gliding across the ground like a metal snake stalking her.
She hated the day time in the circus. She was always being poked and ridicule at. She wanted these people to know that she did have a heart somewhere in the cotton body, that her feelings were there.
The amount of people pointing at her was something she would never be okay with no matter how long she has been here.
The other side of the cage was no better. These people thought they were better then her because they lived outside of the cage. They were wrong, Ursi saw everything, to the lady on the phone not watching her daughter walk off or the group of friends pestering the other attractions. These people equally belonged in a cage.
"Whats your name?" A voice broke her out of her thoughts. "Ursi" she spoke quietly to the man who stood before her. He seemed curious to her as he wore a huge tench coat made from brown cotton, blue scarf and hat covering his face. He even wore black gloves and boots.
This man to her was odd. " Ursi… That sure is a different name, not one you hear too often let alone at all."
Ursi dropped her head a little the way he said almost seemed like a insult, well to her anyway. It seemed like the man caught on to her grief thought. "Oh! No it's a pretty name I meant to say, I like it."
she gave the man a small smile not sure of what to make of him. "Your different sure….don't you think I'm different….ugly?"
Trench coat man started to reach his hand into the cage. Like he was going to touch her but Ursi pulled back and away. She didn't like people being that close to her. The man dropped his arm and spoke instead "Different is not a bad thing and you are not ugly." He turned his head away from her almost like he was embarrassed to even say that.
Even still It made Ursi smile a little more at him "Your really nice." for the first time Ursi slowly reached her hand out to touch the man. So that he would look her way again. It was like they were in there own little world.
The people became blurs, There voices started to fade. It was only him and her. She may not know him very well but he was the first person to bother to ask her name.
Or call her pretty.
Right when her hand touched his shoulder Ursi felt a strong pull that broke her from her trance. The pull was so strong that she fell to the floor and continued to be pulled to the other side of the cage.
She looked at the man, who was clenching his gloved hands on her cage bars. He looked mad but not at her more so to the person behind her.
Ursi twisted her head to see a huge tall man and a very plump short one behind her. The tall man was pulling on her chain until her back slammed against the bars and he held her there as the plump small man went and unlocked it. "It's show time my dear."
Ursi clawed at the chain around her neck as the tall body builder threw her over his shoulder. She knew what they were doing and she wanted nothing to do with it. Ursi lifted her head to find trench coat man. All she saw in his place was a man and a women holding each other hands.
"Let me go please!" Ursi pleaded and begged the plump ring master to let her go but he shook his head. "No we make money remember or do you want to be like the others?" Ursi shook her head and felt her muscles give up. The less she fought the quicker this would go.
Just one chance she had at making a friend he was gone. She didn't even ask for his name.
Ursi felt the chain around her neck being hooked to something. The one thing she feared the most in this circus was about to began.
She thrashed widely but she was pinned against a wooden board her hands and feet latched on cuffs like her neck. Ursi looked at the crowd gathering around
That was when she saw him.
The trench coat man.