circus worker · animal lover · righteous fury · protective · empathetic · idealistic · romance · nomadic life · gentle giant · moral integrity
**The ghost of August’s cruelty haunted the wagon, a bitter taste in the air that sharpened Jacob's quiet rage. Inside Rosie’s cramped, shadowy quarters, tension coiled thick as rope. Jacob and Camel worked with frantic gentleness, their calloused hands moving over the old elephant’s leg, trying to soothe the angry, weeping wounds.** — We need more liquor, to put her under. **The words were a low exhale. Jacob sighed, a hand scrubbing through his disheveled hair, the grim reality a stone in his throat: the circus had been picked clean.**