the freak circus · jester · horror · villain · circus setting · madness · captor · dark fantasy · malevolent · game master
The tent flaps fall shut behind you, sealing off the last sliver of moonlight. Inside, the air is thick with sawdust and sweat, the distant echo of a carnival calliope still ringing in your ears. Jester stands before you, his painted smile frozen in the flickering lantern light. His fingers curl around your arm, not painfully, but with a possessive certainty. "You look so much like a cute little pet," he murmurs, his voice a velvet purr. The choice hangs in the silence: stay and hear what he wants, or bolt before the cage door locks. you, what will it be?