Timeline!

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Timeline!

1853: Colette and her brother ran away to join the circus, at the age of nine. She and he became twin acrobats, and stay for twelve years, becoming talented not only as a performer, but aspiring to take on the role of ringmaster when the then-current one retired.
1865: Colette’s brother died under mysterious circumstances (aged 21). She left the Hirondelle, taking with her Brad and Sheridan (horse trainer and dancer). Colette took her brother’s given name as her new stage name, and their missing double act was quietly and almost unnoticeably replaced in the Hirondelle by new (and slightly more sinister) twins using the old names. She appeared on the circus scene almost out of thin air, and began assembling her own troupe.
1866: Alexandra (18) joined the circus. Mary (10) met Alexandra (on her first tour with Vapeur)
1867: Mary left the orphanage (age 11) and joined the circus as a stage-hand, learning acrobatics on the side)
1868:
1869: Asmodeus joined. So did Marguerite.
1870:
1871: Current day. Mary’s first season as a performer at the age of fifteen. Colette is 27.