Who: Amy Peterson and Peter Vincent(?) What: Amy gets trampled as everyone hurries out of the burning Big Top. Where: The Big Top When: Sunday the 12th, nighttime Status: Incomplete
It was any other night for Amy. She’d wrapped up her performance and she finally had a moment to breathe. She took out her earrings. They looked so nice from the audience, but were incredibly heavy and uncomfortable for her ears. She was making her way towards one of the less conspicuous exits so that she could relax the rest of the night in her housecar when she heard the screaming begin. At first she thought that one of the acts was especially exciting or something had got the audience going, but then the people started fleeing and as they ran from the Big Top they crashed into Amy.
She could see it, now, from where she stood. There was a fire raging through the Big Top and the audience was terrified. Their screams were deafening. Every time Amy tried to make her own exit, someone shoved her out of their way. She was beginning to panic like the rest of them and in the mess dropped the earrings that had cost her a few weeks’ wages.
Not long after the earrings hit the ground, Amy hit the ground, as well. She’d been shoved by a man twice her size hurrying out of the giant tent and once she hit the dirt she knew she’d hurt her wrist in the fall.
“Hey!” Amy shouted. It seemed that each time she made any headway in standing up another person came along that knocked her down again. She felt the sharp pain of shoes stepping on her as people ran from the fire. “Please!” Her eyes started to tear up as she became more and more afraid for her life. She didn’t want to go in a fire. She didn’t want to go at all.