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Nothing but spooks and magicians and things that
"want to take your life and take your money, take
your family, whisk you away. Fuck the circus.”
TALIESIN: Fuck the circus. So that’s what you
think happened to him, then? I feel like there’s
something evil afoot.
MATT: “Says the devil.”
TALIESIN: Again, I’ve been called worse. Sure you
have in your time, as well.
MATT: He takes the drink, sips it. “Don’t come
‘round here no more.”
TALIESIN: I take my cup back. Down it. I love
small towns.
MARISHA: Shithead.
TRAVIS: We head outside. Well, that was
revealing.
SAM: Was it?
MARISHA: We learned a few things, actually. He’s a
prime target. Perfect victim, perfect candidate.
No one really paid attention to him, he was old,
he had no family, his son’s gone.
TALIESIN: Awfully convenient.
MARISHA: Awfully convenient. Still awfully
convenient that your little circus doesn’t allow
the elderly, which you never fully explained, and
he happened to be one of the oldest people in that
circus. Where did that rule come from?
The sick makes sense, I asked you that
before, but why elderly?
TALIESIN: That rule’s been around for as long as I
can remember because it makes people think the
show’s dangerous. Gives them a thrill.
TRAVIS: You’re worried about them having a heart
attack or something?
TALIESIN: We’re not really worried about people
having a heart attack; we want people to be
worried about having a heart attack, because then
they’re more excited to come see the show. This is
how these shows work.
MARISHA: Do you know who implemented that rule?
TALIESIN: Before my time.
LAURA: In his defense, every carnival I’ve gone to
has said no sick people, no old people.
TALIESIN: It’s a boilerplate.
MARISHA: Still a good candidate.
TALIESIN: If you were trying to hide doing
something to someone it’s a great candidate. If I
was trying to get away with something, terrible
idea.
MARISHA: Or if you were trying to frame someone.
Seems to be a lot of pretty bigoted people in this
town who don’t like tieflings and other strange
lots. Jester, you actually said one of the
smartest things of the night, which is– you did,
yeah. Which is, guard’s really weird.
LAURA: Right?
MARISHA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Wait, what?
LAURA: The guards are really weird.
MARISHA: The Crownsguards. As you were saying, the
Ustaloch?