Who: Oliver and Kit. What: Oliver checking out the Hanged Man. When: November 9th, early evening. Where: The Hanged Man. Warnings: TBD.
Oliver had been assigned to the Freakshow and, while he understood why, what with the Hanged Man being filled up, it still galled him. He was in an environment that didn't judge him for being different yet he was still relegated to the Freakshow. That his fellow dwarves had been in similar positions over the past few centuries made it sting, because not all dwarves had the financial resources that he'd had, not all dwarves had had families that, while they weren't necessarily all that caring, at least had the money to send him to school intead of simply selling him to a travelling circus. So, while he was happy to wow the crowds with his elastic limbs, happy to scurry over Lamb while she sunk herself further down on her hooks, he didn't want to rest on his laurels.
His father would have been proud, he thought sardonically, as he left the Freakshow tent after making sure his props and costumes were all packed up. Here he was, trying to move up in the world. Oliver Brown Sr. was similar in that regard, constantly making new acquisitions, constantly trying to move up in the world even though he was, really, as high as he could get, a Lord, a member of Parliament, a CEO of a vast empire. Pulling his thick coat around himself and hoping that the night's move meant they would end up in warmer climes, Oliver wandered, until he realized he was heading to the Hanged Man, the focus of his ambitions.
He entered, unzipping his coat, and looking up at the array of hoops and trapezes. The performers, while breaking down their set, had left a hoop up at the top, and he could see a single man hanging upside down from it. Oliver was quiet at first, taking in the sight of the tent where he wanted to end up, but, eventually, he glanced back up to that hanging man. "Doesn't that make you dizzy after a while?" He asked, knowing that all of his blood went to his head whenever he hung himself upside down for too long. To be fair, though, maybe the man didn't even have blood.