Segawatober 2022 Day 11 - Balloons
I'm skipping Day 10 for rn, I will do so tomorrow. I will finish these prompts before Monday, mark my words. Anyway, take this offering!
TW: Mention of murder and desecration of dead bodies? Also clowns
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The Grudge Circus, besides Tofu Town, was the only place that the Owul siblings were actually fully welcomed. Among the terrifying tunes of the circus, the tents made of wanderers, and souls with anger too great to let go, the aliens were accepted. It felt…. off. To look at the green balloons of a circus made of the dead, and know that it was a place they could sit and not feel judged. Not be looked at suspiciously for being foreign. They couldn’t blame the Calpuccans, it’s understandable why they were so hesitant. But still. It was nice to have a place where they could come in and be met with more than tolerance. The clowns loved hearing about their travels, asking the hows and whys and wheres til the siblings could barely speak anymore. The young girl they brought was especially attached, looking so happy to be among spirits like her. The ringleader told them it was a miracle she didn’t become haunted, so consumed by anger like that all alone. For all the Grudge Circus did that was plain creepy and wrong, it was a safe place for spirits to not turn fully evil. It was a place of rest for the souls that can’t. Though they still were a bit strange, seen when the siblings gathered the courage to look into their eyes. They were always bloodshot, and slightly strained, but still coherent. Consumed by hatred but still in some ways happy. The circus had horrific beginnings, formed from a murdered troupe, but it made itself into something somewhat amazing. So even though their skin crawled, they couldn’t look at the balloons without knowing how they came to be, how they couldn’t really settle, the circus was one of the places the aliens felt safe. And so they came back, one final time to say goodbye. And they were greeted with smiles and cheers and well wishes.
It was heartwarming.
