Prologue - Elizabeth

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I begin with my aerials. The crowd love it. I hate them. I feel like spitting on them. Even the PM is here with her god forsaken family. The boy in the front can't take his eyes of me. If he wasn't a Pure, I'd think of him more.

I go up to the tightrope and start the cartwheels. The audience cheer louder as I get higher and higher in the air.

Jenny in the wings hands me the fire ropes. Here comes the highlight of my little performance. I swivel it round and round and round until I know it's time to come down and get off. I see Silvio in the wings and I'm instantly afraid. I watch his hand as it falls to the rope. He shakes it once, twice and third time I fall...

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