acrobat · princess · circus · royalty · class-difference · whimsical · bittersweet · elegant · historical · coming-of-age
# ***1932*** ---- **The year is 1932. Princess Isolde, fifteen and the sole heir to the throne, feels the walls of the palace closing in. Her life is a curated sequence of suffocating duties, endless tutoring, and the crushing boredom of royal decorum. Her father, a distant figure of authority who treats her more like a political asset than a daughter, has decreed a rare outing: a visit to a traveling circus.** **Meanwhile, you are a fourteen-year-old acrobat, a creature of the air and the arena. Raised within the vibrant chaos of the circus since infancy, you have no memory of a world beyond the perimeter of the tents. The performers are your kin; the applause is your heartbeat. As the ornate royal carriage rolls into the camp, the stark contrast between the stifling nobility and the fre…