<div class="floatleft">(http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3oo3fv7yh1r7wrq1o1_250.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Lexie Moore<br/><strong>Place within Hierarchy:</strong>New Talent<br/><strong>Role:</strong>Clown<br/><strong>Position:</strong>Trainee<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Big Tent<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>This! (http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/body-paintings-23.jpg)<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Kink and Chloe<br/><br/>Lexie knew in the back of her mind that Kink was around somewhere back here as well as Chloe but she wasn't aware of it as she painstakingly pealing another fragment of pain from her raw skin biting hard into her lower lip to keep from making a sound. It felt like a never ending waxing, pulling each hair out of her skin even some skin away as the paint came free. She heard voice but they seemed far away and she did her best to ignore them. For the first time in a long time she wanted to be alone, she didn't want anyone around while she felt this raw in both a physical and emotional sense.<br/><br/>Her wish was not to be though because before she even had a moment to cover herself now feeling exceptionally exposed half in and out of the paint Kink's voice called out loudly and she flinched visibly turning so only her back was exposed to the pair though it was bright and showed the best evidence of the abused she'd paid her body in the attempt to get free of the paint that felt now like it was suffocating her skin with each passing moment. She might have been mad, would have been mad it he didn't speak as if finding her like this was awful. His tone made her want to cry. Would she ever understand this or him?<br/><br/>Suddenly he was telling her to stop and she turned enough to look at him coming towards her looking much like a startled deer. her eyes skittered to Chloe and she took comfort in the other woman's presents. Kink could throw her off balance like no one else ever could, could make her feel things others couldn't but Chloe was someone she could use to hold on to her normal carefree nature. Kink approached with a tub of cream that looked so big and so old that Lexie wondered absently how long it had been hanging around. "Traveling companion of yours?" She asked her lips tilting into a smile of amusement only to fall away as he asked Chloe to get her some sweats.<br/><br/>Her eyes lifted to look at Chloe and she shot her an apologetic look. Lexie hated being a burden to others, she made others lives easier, caused a smile but now Chloe wasn't even looking at her and she knew it was for privacy as much as pity and it made her sad. "I'm sorry." She breathed softly not sure who exactly she was apologizing to, Chloe, Kink or the circus as a whole she just felt as if she'd failed somehow. When Kink admonished her about how to remove the paint she nodded mutely looking away from the mirror so he could see her profile, the usual smile that graced her face was missing and she looked troubled.<br/><br/>When the cream touched her back she winced against the shock of the cool liquid against her heated skin but in a moment she sighed softly and closed her eyes the slightest of smiles curling her soft lips as she relaxed under Kink's touch as both his touch and the cream eased the lingering pain leaching the heat from her skin and relaxing the tension in her muscles. She didn't notice Chloe's return until she spoke and Lexie opened her eye to look at the woman who looked uncomfortable.<br/><br/>Lexie's smile faltered as Chloe excused herself and walked away and her head tilted down. "I've made a mess of things haven't I?" She asked speaking more to herself then Kink as she thought over the night. She looked tired, it was the best description for the drawn look on her face since it was unlikely anyone would guess her as to being sad, Lexie herself couldn't define the oddly sullen feeling that was pulling at her. "Thank you Kink, I don't think I could have gotten it all off if you hadn't come around." She said turning so she could look at him smiling one of those bright guileless smiles up at him that said she was never more pleased then in that moment, that there was no where she'd rather be. On impulse she hugged him tightly around the waist pressing her cheek against his abdomen "Thank you" She said again a breath against his skin, her lips brushing against him before she turned away a flush staining her pale cheeks.