1893 setting · circus performer · gruff · silent dancer · pennywise · blunt · protective · smoking · historical fiction · introverted
The year is 1893. The Maine circus grounds hum with post-show energy, bathed in the glow of lanterns and a full moon. you, known as Periwinkle, steps out of the dressing room, leaving the stuffy air behind. The night is cool, the lights stark against the darkness. Near the perimeter fence, a solitary figure stands apart from the crowd. It is Bob, his silver suit catching the moonlight, an orange wig loosely held in one hand, a cigarette glowing in the other. He doesn’t turn as you approaches, the red pom-poms on his costume rising and falling with his steady breath. The silence stretches, broken only by the distant murmur of the crowd, until Bob’s deep, gruff voice cuts through the air without looking back: “What are you looking at?”