They was one rule and one rule only that we all had to obey. No outsiders. They elders told the children from the day their were born that all outsiders see us are freaks people that are only there for their entertainment. I have lived by this rule my whole everyone had, i had never talked to anyone outside our community, except when i was preforming or reading there palms. There weren’t many others children my age so i leant to fend for myself and keep my self entertained. Even if we were allowed to meet people from the outside its not like any of us could be friends we don’t usually stay in the same place for more than 2 months its not like we have the time for anything. Iv been in this Circus for as long as i can remember, Everyone says that I was left on the back of one of there carriages as a baby and left there by my mother. Mo took me in. Im not the only on how was left for the circus to take in. My mother also left my twin sister Skye. And then there is Joseph who ran away from an orphanage in Romania when he was seven years old, Mark who was left for dead on the side of the hill just past where we were set up when we did our tour of North America, and last Christopher who was found only three days after we were under the bleachers of one of the crowd stands. Everyone at first thought that we had to be brother and sister but alas it was not true. That was fifteen years ago. Me and skye now have our own acrobatics routine, and physic medium, Joseph is a lion tamer, Mark is training to take over from the ring leader when he retires. The circus is not for the light hearted, only three weeks ago we lost one of our most professional acrobats after he attempted to do a triple somersault on the high wire with do net beneath him. In front of a packed crowd and the nervous acts he lost his footing on the landing and fell to his death. We were all pulled under a deep depression for a week and a half. But no one was a sad a Skye, Michael had been her coach since the time she could walk. He taught her how to do handstands, cartwheels, flips and tricks everything she leant was from him. I on the other hand had Christina as a coach she was Michaels husband and loved him very dearly. But as they say in show bis the show must go on so thats what we did. We packed up got on the train and moved to the next town along the line.
While also doing our acrobatics, we were psychic mediums. Joshua the head man didn’t like the idea of having a psychic on board his train, but after much thinking from Mo he allowed it. Unlike most of the psychic you hear on the radio or the ones that work in those dingy dungeons on the main street saying that they can tell the future and if the world is going to end. We actually psychic. Mo found out one day when we were five years old. Me and Skye used to have this game where we would each guessing each card the other is holding, whoever loses had to give the other half of there allowance for the day. The only problem is either of us ever lost, we were both to good, and then one day Mo came up to us and said “Skye, Crystal what were you two doing just now with the cards?” she questioned with a calm voice.
“It’s a game we always play,” Skye said back, we didn’t know much back then we were only five.
“How do you play this game?” Mo asked, kneeling down so that her face was level with ours.
“Well we each half a desk of cards, and we take turn guessing which card it s without seeing the face, and whoever loses has to give half of their daily allowance to the other.” i answered back.
“Well that really is a trick you have there, I think we can make it bette and add it to tonights show,” she said in an excited voice.
“Really,” the twins said in unison. They had of course been on show before but always as the baby’s the one on top of the pyramid and sitting on top the elephants head. They had never had the stage to themselves before.
Of course after that night Mo started to teach them how to use the tarot cards and the crystal ball and anything else. This lessons came easy to the twins, compared to there regular acrobatics classes where there worked until there couldn’t walk any further, the lessons where a kind of joy. Over time the twins power grew and grew. Each could tell the future for anyone and call upon there relatives and all the usually stuff psychics can do. The only difference was while Skye could talk to the dead as if there were around Crystal couldn’t. And Crystal could read the tarots like her favorite book skye could never quit get it. They soon became the circus’s main attraction. They would read palms and talk to the dead all day. The circus become very popular and seats we sold out months in advance. Everything was perfect until one day. Skye and Crystal both worked in separate tents for most of there readings. It started out like any other day. There was a steady steam of normal regular people coming in and out of there two tents. It was around lunch time when a women came in.
