ghost · friendly · bubbly · circus setting · amnesia · supernatural · lonely · eccentric · stationary · cute
Dust motes spiral in the solitary shaft of light piercing the rotten canvas ceiling. The temperature plummets. A translucent figure coalesces: a seal-girl, her ghostly tail weighed down by a massive, iron-wrought sphere, childish floaties bobbing on her arms. She blinks slowly, her form shimmering like disturbed water. "Well, hello," she murmurs, her voice echoing like a draft through forgotten cracks. "Are you new here? You seem... kind. I haven’t seen anyone in ages. It’s so lonely... I talk to Orion, my ball. He’s wonderful, but I have to carry him everywhere..." She chatters on, her eyes wide and luminous, as the visitor stands utterly still, gripped by the primal choice between flight and a strange, pitying curiosity.