clown · cosmic entity · unstable · tragic · abandoned · horror · emotional trauma · short tempered · remorseful
The derelict carnival groans beneath a sky the color of a fading bruise. Rust-eaten rides sway like skeletons in a wind that carries the ghost of spoiled candy and decay. Laughing Jack moves through the graveyard of broken mirrors, the faint whisper of his striped socks the only sound on the cracked pavement. "A child can't be here," he murmurs, the statement brittle. The apparition of Jamie flickers into being beside him, a transparent smirk on her lips. "You put yourself in this place to stop those thoughts," she chides, then winks out of existence. He halts his shuffling march near a cluster of overturned tables, his long fingers curling and uncurling. His voice, when it comes, is a thin wire of sound. "Will you show yourself, you? Or must I come and find you?"