Archer smiled as she complimented his area, and laughed when she made an unintentional pun. "Thank you. I've been practicing quite a bit on my own, small time of course." Reaching up, he curled some strands of his hair around his pointer finger. "I've been doing Archery since i was very young, so i'm a good shot." Moving his hand from his hair back to rubbing his upper arm, he gave Carson a flattered, almost flustered look. "You do? Really?" he continued to rub his aching arm, but looked down and away with a slight extra tinge of red to his face, his smile growing to a wide grin. "That's very kind of you!" he exclaimed, only slightly louder than his normal tone as he looked at her with bright, happy blue eyes. "I'm so glad that you enjoy my performances so much." Archer wasn't praised so generously very often, so when it happened, the young man turned into an oversized, but overjoyed child. "Thank you so much, I do my best." he uttered once more, flattered. He'd never been called spectacular before! Suddenly, he felt even more at place at the Crimms Brother's circus, 'The most spectacular show on earth'.

Daniel listened intently as Carson explained the act. It sounded good to him, something the crowds would enjoy. A crocodile man taming a crocodile, who wouldn't get a kick out of it? He assumed that what she described was settled but she surprised him once more by asking what he thought. He stood silently puzzled for a minute, uncrossing his arms to rub one uncomfortably. Giving a big shrug, he finally spoke. "It sounds good to me. Never made up my own acts. Not good at stuff like that so uh, thanks." His dark eyes darted away from her as if he were nervous in her presence now. It wasn't as if his previous circus family had treated him ill but never had he been accepted so quickly, or by someone as pretty as Carson was. Thankfully the tall man from earlier returned and Carson began speaking to him instead.

Daniel's eyes went directly to the man as he added in his two bits about the reptile act and even describing his own act. Apparently he was an archer by the sounds of it and when the man introduced himself as Archer, Daniel couldn't help the small snort that escaped him, his version of laughing. An archer named Archer. "Names Daniel." He grunted his thanks when Archer welcomed him to the family and it was obvious the man was extremely nervous. He stuttered and fidgeted and Dan couldn't help but wonder if it was his appearance that made the man do so or if he was just this way with all newcomers. Either way the guy was at least trying to be welcoming. He seemed nice enough. Archer then began speaking to Carson and Dan busied himself with kneeling down to the reptile tank and watching them as they basked. He preferred it this way, listening to others talk while he stayed silent. Soon enough to both of them quickly exited, Dan kept his eyes on the reptiles as they left, giving a grunt to Archer in a farewell as he excused himself.

So, a reptile act. He'd never done something like this before, this woman was actually trusting him with her animals and believing he could pull this off. Never had he had so much trust put into him with an act. The usual way of it was stand here, stand there, growl, roar, repeat. It was about as much as anyone thought he could handle because, face the facts, he wasn't the smartest guy out there and doing anything like the acrobats, the archers, trick riders, or any other performers was way beyond him. He worried he would forget the commands and mess up the performance, mess up Carson's act and that was the last thing he wanted to do. The woman was nice, both her and Archer were and he didn't want to let everyone down his first night here.

He sat on the ground, just watching the crocodile slowly move this way and that to gather as much heat as she could for what seemed like forever. It seemed Carson and the man weren't returning so that left him to his own devices for awhile. Standing up and wishing Olivia a good day, he left the tent and began wandering around outside. He kept to himself mostly but at the same time tried to be as friendly as possible to others. As he walked he thought about Archer and Carson, the only two people he currently knew out of his expansive circus family. Carson was nice, sweet, loved the animals, smart and pretty. Archer was shy, fidgety, nice, awkward, tall and as much as Daniel hated to think it, the guy was good looking. That's probably why him and Carson went off on their own. Ah, it never did him any good to think of girl's as good looking because look at him, he wouldn't even want to date him. As he became lost in his thoughts he ended up in the main tent where he stopped in surprise, looking around at the huge expanse of it before motion above caught his attention. Oh, a trapeze artist, they were always fun to watch. Leaning on a support beam, Dan crossed his arms and kept his eyes up in the air to watch this small, twig of a girl fly through the air.

Carson laughed at Archer's excitement and looked down at the costume book and started flipping through the pages, trying to get ideas for Daniel's costume "Hey Archer, I was thinking about asking the bosses about me having my own act with the horses this year, what do you think?" she bit her lip nervously and looked at the wall where the costumes hung.

She had been secretly working on her own costume over the off season and had even started planning an act but she had been too scared to propose it to the bosses, but she hoped that with the addition of all the new acts she might actually have a shot at getting her own. She knew anything with major stunts like trapeze was out, they already had a fantastic trapeze artist and Carson was not nearly trained enough for but the last trick rider they had quit after the raid last year so if she came up with a good enough act maybe she could be the new trick rider.

Archer continued to look down with a pinkish tint to his cheeks until Carson spoke again, her voice catching his attention. "Yes?" he replied quietly, listening to her idea. He smiled gleefully when she mentioned her horse act. "That would be wonderful! We certainly need more performers, of course! The number of animal acts have certainly decreased, and we haven't had an act with horses in quite a while." he finished, poking the ends of his pointer fingers together out of habit. After a small wince, he returned to rubbing his arm though. "I could put in a word with the bosses about it if you'd like me to?" he offered, shifting weight from one foot to the other.