Hello there! I'm Miss Mary Q Contrary, acrobat extraorinare, or as extraordinary as one can be on one's first tour since being promoted from Circus Lackey.
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Marie fidgeted ceaselessly as Marguerite led them to her seedy opium den: Fiddling with her cloak, hopping deliberately over the cracks between cobblestones, peering every which way at the unfamiliar buildings. It wasn't that she disliked opium dens: Having spent all her adolescence in the circus, she had a well-developed appreciation for all manner of vices. But she had a hard time sitting still on the best of days, and her mind was still racing from their show earlier that night.
What a show! She'd performed her routine before, of course, but this was the largest town they'd stopped in since she'd joined the show, and her heart had nearly pounded right out of her chest at the sound of the crowd while she had waited for her cue. To be out flying in front of all those people, instead of waiting backstage and cleaning up after Marguerite's disturbing little creatures!
And from such bright lights and color and excitement to this spooky den! Marie bounced nervously, sticking close to Alexandra's side as she followed them inside, her mind still spinning with the roar of the crowd.
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