<div align="center">------Jason Wick------</div><br/>It is strange to think that a place as infamous and renowned for debauchery as the Nightmare Circus could have its own dark, detestable, and ill-used corners.  One would think the aura of wicked malevolence would be omnipresent, like a funeral shroud drawn over the landscape, or a contagion infecting every pore and addling every mind.  But though the Attractions and the Big Top Tent are places of horror and danger, the spaces between them are as normal and innocuous as any other fairground.  Yet like any other fairground, one would be smart not to stray too far from the neon lights and leering carnies, lest they fall prey to the more unscrupulous sort of folk that might be lurking in shadows.<br/><br/>But if one<em>were</em>to throw caution to the wind and wander away from the illusion of safety that the light bestows, one might find themselves before a very foreboding and very empty part of the Circus.  The darkness seems to cling to the fluttering tarps and concrete walls like a fungus, dripping down and festering in the soil until sickly blades of grass and other shriveled things sprout up and twitch in the night air, regardless of whether the wind is at work.  White arrows, their paint flaking yet still oddly luminescent, point the way through all the grime and abandoned tents towards a corner on the very outskirts of the grounds, where the fences jut up towards the starlight and sent up waves of cruelly twisted barbed wire.<br/><br/>And in this corner is a sign as tall as a man, and written on this sign are three bold words:<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 36pt;">The Unkillable Boy!</span></span></div><br/>The sign proclaimed to anyone brave enough to draw near.  As if to reassure any curious visitors that this stand has not also been left derelict and empty, a man and a woman dressed in identical black suits step forth from the murk, leering forward with all-too-cheerful grins, bowed backs, and clasped hands.  Their attire seems sorely out of place amongst such sordid surroundings, as if they had just wandered in out of some well-to-do Hollywood party.  But their faces were very much the sort you would expect from carnival attendants, their faces made up so beautifully that they came off as oddly surreal and jet black hair slicked back painfully with wax until it spiked off at the back of the neck like a cresting wave.<br/><br/><em>"Welcome!"</em><br/><strong>"Welcome!"</strong><br/><br/>They would say in unison, coming just a bit too close and boxing any would-be customers in.<br/><br/><em>"Having fun?  Of course you are!  Frightful fun, we hope!"</em><br/><strong>"Having fun?  Of course you are!  Frightful fun, we hope!"</strong><br/><br/>The two glanced at one another with mock concern, backing off talking loudly amongst themselves.<br/><br/><em>"But you know, all this fear can be a stressful thing!  All too stressful!  All the danger, all the horror!  Gives me the chills!"</em><br/><strong>""But you know, all this fear can be a stressful thing!  All too stressful!  All the danger, all the horror!  Gives me the chills!"</strong><br/><br/>Two fingers went up like mirror-images, and one could almost hear the sudden ding of twin lightbulbs overhead.<br/><br/><em>"What you need is some relief!  A way to take the edge off, as it were!  Somewhere without people to judge your actions, where you can do whatever you please!  No consequences.  No laws.  Somewhere--or someone--that can help all that pent up aggression leak away before jumping back into the other Attractions!"</em><br/><strong>"What you need is some relief!  A way to take the edge off, as it were!  Somewhere without people to judge your actions, where you can do whatever you please!  No consequences.  No laws.  Somewhere--or someone--that can help all that pent up aggression leak away before jumping back into the other Attractions!"</strong><br/><br/>They grinned again, leaning into your personal space.<br/><br/><em>"Sound tempting?"</em><br/><strong>"Sound tempting?"</strong>