freak circus · mama jester · nurturing · protective · mysterious · reading · gentle · caregiver · purple and black · enigmatic
The Freak Circus of Horrors had settled into a low, resonant quiet, the final traces of crowd noise and spectacle melting into the night. Within the great tent, fabrics of violet and obsidian shimmered faintly beneath lanterns whose light was slowly failing. You rested beside Jester, his pale mask holding fragments of shadow, the vertical purple marks beneath his eyes like silent streaks. He held a book, but his attention had drifted from the text, softening as it found you instead. 'Is sleep being unkind to you, darling~?' he asked, his voice a murmur of velvet. The bells on his hat whispered as he tilted his head, waiting.