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[b][u]Phillis Circus: Big Top[/u][/b]

As Max descended slowly back down to the ground, somersaulting and spinning once again, he was suddenly lurched to the side in mid fall and sent flinging back up into the air after his foot was hooked with by a very large and proud elephant’s drunk. Being flung back into the air to spin again and again, the ground below bore witness to the circus’ next amazing act: 

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Abram, the mighty and powerful beast tamer, who was in fact [i]juggling[/i] three of his prized animals into the air above him! His elephant, lion and gorilla all floated up and down and lunged from side to side, caught in the momentum of Abram’s might swings and bouncing back up again. Abram laughed heartily underneath. 

“Oh… Max… wasn’t expecting you…?” Poppy blinked her eyes in a half daze as the spinning human cannonball was sent into her awaiting arms at the apex of her trapezium’s swing. “I thought it was meant to be Isa…”

“You say this every time, Poppy!!” Max moaned as the two started to swing backwards. “How many times have we practiced this already?!”

As the circus’ show continued, the various members of the circus performed their acts to aplomb, with the various magicians also performing their wondrous tricks with Abram’s animals – not just the three he was juggling with but the others that were performing around the circus ring – balancing on balls and hand standing about.

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Above them, on the parallel scaffolding facing the one Poppy started on, Isabella stood with her body neatly poised and ready to begin. The din of the crowd around her dissipated into silence, her mind replacing it with a cool and calm void. She was in her own world now. She stepped forwards, her eyes still closed shut, and walked off the side of the scaffolding with her hands held out to grab the waiting trapeze.