X was halfway across the tent and about to jump up into the rigging, but he called back to the other two as much to test the echoes as anything.
"What, never seen a circus before??" The strain in his voice kinda ruined the joke, though. And he wasn't getting anywhere like this. What he wouldn't give for the suit's power source. The little figure in black reappeared in center ring, still glaring around for the source of that hideous laughter. "Sh-show yourself!!"
There were three corpses not ten feet away from him- a couple and a boy, the last not much smaller than him, all piled together as if they'd been dropped there from a great height. He saw red leotards and white tights and his brain stopped working for the second time in two minutes. Weren't there only... supposed to be... two?
The long piece of chalk fell from his hand with a tiny clatter that echoed itself, rolling away from him and into the light.