Tim circles the cage once, merrily enough, before darting back out the hole he'd chewed. The boy rises shakily to his feet, stunned speechless. He has no answer for her. He's seven years old and what is this.
And in spite of the miraculous rescue, he doesn't seem any less terrified. He approaches the exit with all the trepidation of someone who doesn't expect his fate can be escaped so easily. The Ringmaster is still outside. The Ringmaster still wants him dead. They'll only be angrier now, that he wouldn't even let himself get eaten by the lion properly.
But there's nowhere left to go but out, to meet whatever awaits him, it seems.]
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[...That's what he would like to know...
Tim circles the cage once, merrily enough, before darting back out the hole he'd chewed. The boy rises shakily to his feet, stunned speechless. He has no answer for her. He's seven years old and what is this.
And in spite of the miraculous rescue, he doesn't seem any less terrified. He approaches the exit with all the trepidation of someone who doesn't expect his fate can be escaped so easily. The Ringmaster is still outside. The Ringmaster still wants him dead. They'll only be angrier now, that he wouldn't even let himself get eaten by the lion properly.
But there's nowhere left to go but out, to meet whatever awaits him, it seems.]