Herrick Mederionos
With the Zoo open, Zero stayed to himself. As usual, many gave his cage a glance and then hurried right on by. Herrick even had his eyes closed during their escapes, which simply confirmed his fears: He was too scary for most, or not scary enough. It was depressing really that he could be both and yet neither at the same time, almost like a paradox. He sat in the middle of his cage, his head slouching down slightly so that his hat covered his face. The scorpion tail attached to him was as defient as ever, poised above his head. Zero had always thought that the thing had a mind of its own, never resting and always keeping watch for onlookers that got too close. To Herrick, that seemed to be one of the reasons why most people just ran on by - who wanted to get near a thing that could kill you without looking?
It was as if the tail had eyes. How childish.
Zero's ears perked up to the noise of the people as they entered. Their heavy footsteps, Jack using his fake announcements, Lilith and Ara arguing about something. Zero wasn't sure how their relationship made sense: Constant bickering between each other, and they somehow stay stronger together? He hadn't read that anywhere, and Shakespeare was supposed to be brilliant with deep and developed characters. Zero made a mental note that 30 minutes after showtime, he would skim through all of his book collection to see if he could find evidence of such characters. Hopefully that would help him understand how Lilith and Ara worked. The problem was that he had already done that 3 times already... He knew that he had, but a fourth look over couldn't hurt.
He peered from under his hat to notice a girl. Roughly his age, red hair. Colourful and interesting clothing style. Piercings. She seemed to be noticing all the freaks, though he couldn't read what her facial expression was. Possibly she could tell how miserable some were? Zero hadn't a clue. All that he knew was that she seemed to be nice, but he didn't want to scare her off now.