6:00am, a time when many were awaking from their beds, wiping the sleep from their eyes to go about their daily routines - but not Le Cirque, oh no, the freaks had been up for hours, helpers setting up the bigtop and other attractions, vendors stocking their wares at their stalls, performers practicing for tonight's show. You see, The Circus never truly sleeps, nobody's ever truly resting, it's much too busy for that. 6:00am, on the dot. Madame Merciless strode forth from her tent, a wide grin taking up her face as she skipped her way toward the now fully-constructed big-top.
"Good morning, my freaks!~" the woman's light, bouncy voice travelled through the empty insides of the tent as she made way into the center of the ring, her eyes scanning around at the few faces gathered upon her usual morning roll call. She'd pause ahead of the group, her grin falling to a content yet mischievous smile as she mentally listed all present acts, nodding to each in turn. Had any been late or missing, she'd also make note to 'have a word' with them, as she often did with those in particular who found it common practice to disobey her.
Once done registering each face she saw with the names upon her mental list, she'd clear her throat; "Now now, calm yourselves" she chuckled, hushing any chatter that may have broken out whilst she was doing her mental preparations, "Today is quite important. Our first show in Abilene - one step closer to Chicago." Madame seemed to swoon at the very mention of Chicago as the word rolled across her tongue, "And so!" she'd quickly snapped back to her usual bossy nature, "I expected you all to work your hardest these next few days, to show your full potential!" a nod accompanied her words, and with a final grin she'd bow, "Back to practice" then leaving the performers and heading out of the big-top, leading them through to the practice yard and following through to an off-set, enclosed section of the yard where her freshly-picked corpses lie, all in a neat row, awaiting the awakening sting of her toxin.
Note: If your character is new to the circus (i.e, one of the "freshly picked corpses") you will be resurrected in my next post, so for now you will be skipped. The current corpses belong to The Animal Man and The Twisted Child. Please let me know if your character is new so that I know whom to wait for and whom to skip.