Land Highest: Circus It Up!, #0

By E Darkwood

Earth's Greatest Circus Proudly Presents,

Fortunata: the luckiest of origins.

 

An origin is a beginning but where does someone begin? Those of us in the troupe would say our beginning, our true origin can be summed up in one word: Circus.

 

For us Circus is more than just the suspended bars and taut line you see above you, it's more than the name of any act, more than any single acrobat. Which by the way I overheard one of you earlier struggling with a-cro-bat but don't worry about it! Some of our youngest stumble on it too (pun intended) and you know what I say? Whatever you call them they still fly! 

 

And that's the thing to remember.

 

Many of us where born here, many of us joined during the journey across the stars but regardless of how we came under its loving wings for all of us Circus is where we are, where we transform ourselves, where we express ourselves, where ourselves reach out to yourselves and together we will have the greatest fortune bestowed upon us.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, beings of all ages we welcome you to our home, the one and only. Circus!

 

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This is a short story that through the innocent eyes of one of its initiates introduces Circus — an art long extinct, or one might say selectively forgotten.

While this tale preludes events in the main series — and so is enhanced by having read it — it may be read as a standalone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: E Darkwood
• Release date: Jul 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201949792

Book preview

The lights dim until the stage is only darkness.

L ADIES AND GENTLEMEN PRESENTING FORTUNATA! We shout before Zephyru can.

Zephyru's feathers twitch in answer before twinkling eyes look at us and laugh then Zephyru swallows us up in a swooping hug.

"Little rascals! You're the ones who asked me to tell it." Zephyru chucklingly scolds as we giggle and squirm into the winged hold.

We stick out our tongues then shriek delighted when it provokes Zephyru into a tickling contest.

Soon it's the three of us out of breath but drowning in fun when as if by magic Zephyri suddenly appears beside us.

That they are. Zephyri agrees with Zephyru's earlier accusation but we don't take it any more seriously then the first time cause Zephyri's joining in on the laughter, and also the bird pile.

"Now how is your Zephyru suppose to keep up the circus mystique when you two already know the show better