Cirque Noir

What a welcoming city Amsterdam remains, and Haarlem has a real sense of peace to it.

Just remember to keep some common sense about you. When the cirque was here about 15 years ago a particular group went out and got so high and drunk that three of them tumbled into a canal together.

[Reggie]
And that canal water smell never came out of those jeans, no matter how much I washed them.

Hello, to the Netherlands. Mijn luchtkussenboot zit vol paling. I'm excited to be here, although I don't speak more than a few sentences of Dutch myself.

I haven't done too much in the city yet, other than walk around and take in the different experience to Yokohama. But Isaac and I have been out to look at some of the flower fields together and took photos like we were instagram influencers, but we weren't the only ones doing it and I suspect the others thought we were mocking them a little.

I don't have many future plans yet but Wednesday I am going out to a very lavish restaurant to have dinner with Bliss and actually wear some of the remarkable clothes Elia buys me. (And the shoes! I'm sorry, Elia, the shoes hardly ever get an outing.)

Well, that time skip fucked with my head and my energy.

At least we're in Amsterdam so I can get both those things sorted relatively quickly.

Hello, lovelies! Guess who's back!

Time's up: It's me!!

Oh, I missed this place so much and I'm happy to be back! How has everyone been? Behaving ourselves since I've been gone? Come on, I want stories. Tell me all the juicy gossip!

Ooo! So many new faces too. Hello! I'm Stella. Pleased to meet you. Don't be shy now, come over and tell me about yourselves.

Hey! Who's got drugs, the harder the better? The new girl is a drug addict so she needs them real bad. Told her I'd help cause I've got that community spirit. I AM that community spirit

What's everyone got? (I'll check them out too, make sure they're good.)

April is ending. Spring will become summer. I shall be grateful for longer days and shorter nights. Dawn can seem so far away.

A poem for today:


The hours steal by with still, unasking lips—
So lightly that I cannot hear their tread;
And softly touch me with their finger-tips
To find if I be dreaming, or be dead.

And yet however still their flight may be,
Their ceaseless going weights my heart with tears;
These touches will have wrought deep scars on me—
When the light hours have worn to heavy years.

Passing of the Hours
Ella Higginson, 1862-1940

[Message to Hemlock, Mona and Kit - Sent late Sunday afternoon/evening]

I went to the market today and picked up stuff to make yosenabe tomorrow, including the clay pot. You all are coming over to my trailer tomorrow night for dinner.

Hemlock, you live here, so you have no excuse.

Kit, I promise I have something sweet for desert. ...It's cake before you decide to say anything smart.

Mona, I hope this makes up for the lack of takoyaki.

[Messages to Kit - Sent 3:00 am]

Are you around? It's not an emergency if you're in the middle of another poker game or something.

HELP

THE CIRCUS ATE MY WITCH

HAS IT EVER DONE THIS BEFORE???

The capybara cafe is a nice way to spend an evening. Ms. Potato is a very polite eater.

[Hiroki]
I didn't realize that you and Bliss' familiar were one and the same. My apologies.

[Arden]
Can you confirm your availability for tomorrow night when you're awake?

Keeping in mind it'll be a full moon, I'd like to top you up on my blood then, too. Caution never hurt.

[OOC: To save everyone's Friend's Pages and Inboxes, I'm putting all of Isaac's messages in one entry]


( Message to Ren )

( Message to Mona )

( Unsent Message to Kit )

( Filtered to Kit )

→ Morning
→ Have a good one last night?
→ After you left the grounds I mean 😉

do any of you ever wonder why the letters in the english alphabet are in the order that they're in? i mean like, the letter 'j' was one of the last letters added and yet it's the 10th letter in the alphabet. why is that?

WHO: Kit & Isaac
WHAT: Dinner time doesn't go according to plan~
WHERE: Cirque grounds
WHEN: April 19th, early morning (approx. 2AM)
WARNINGS: HIGH (feeding on a willing party, feeding on an unwilling patron, language, mentions of sex)

( What the fuck was going on? )

To all the new people who haven't had their portraits taken message me here. We need to get that shit done.

In the interest of trying to keep myself out of trouble...

Send me three names + a number and I will tell you:

1. fuck, marry, kill
   
2. marry, cuddle, sleep with
   
3. fuck, take a bullet for, murder
   
4. adopt, be adopted by, marry
   
5. kill, betray, have on your zombie apocalypse team
   
6. seduce, steal from, serenade

[Niall]

Want to hit up the Minato Mirai Manyo Club Hot Spring with me?

WHO Mona & Kit
WHEN so very backdated: Wednesday, 13th March
WHERE Mona’s trailer
WHAT Mona decides to stop comparing herself to every hotter woman at cirque and jump Kit already
WARNINGS it's literally all sex. [complete]

( there will be no sign from above: you’ll only hear the knock knock knock of your own heart as signal.  )

If anybody is interested, I'm arranging a party bus tour of the best bars and nightclubs in the local area.

Obviously, for a time when we aren't working.

Do you know how pissed off I would have been if I had to travel by normal means, getting to India and then realizing that I had to go to Japan instead? Flights are expensive. And long. And the food is just never what it ought to be, even if I'm flying first class.

Hello again, Cirque. Elia's home.