A Night in a Circus

Chaper One

Chapter 1: In which the stranger gives.

Ahina's POV

It was a rainy saturday afternoon when all of our costumers are starting to get noisy, I can't barely hear the music that the band play because of those gossips around the pub.

"Inah did you know that the Cealum's circus is coming here in Davern Alley?" Guinevere was ecstatic mood makes me wonder why this circus is famous? I heard some of the rumours that they're tiny beautiful pixies flying, a humourous clown, A dancing centaur and a magnificent dragon and a lion. I can't believe those creatures gathered to perform such performance.

"Inah? Are you still with me?" I didn't know I was carried away with my thoughts. I nod at her and continue to serve some costumers.

As I finished serve the last order I head back to the kitchen, to wash the dishes because the dishes never washes itself. I work here as a waitress and a dishwasher too. I was born eldest of three and the first one to have a misfortune and miserable life.

Beaucoup amount of dishes greet me as face them, I began to scrape them then I started washing the glasses first. Bubbles comes from the dishwashing soap floats in the air freely as the clamorous sound of rain makes me feel comfortable.

All things in this world made me think if magic truly exist? Those gossips about the infamous ringmaster bothers me, is he really that unearthly beautiful?

My auntie says that whenever beautiful girls are around they we're spotted with the ringmaster, he was infamous about stealing hearts and some says he sold his soul to the dark side. Heedless of his reputation, surprisingly his circus became famous.

The head cook, Marianne went outside leaving me here alone. Alone...that word described me and my life too. Staring blankly ahead through the window sill, watching the raindrops falls while washing the dishes. The sound of it has it's own kind of melody in my ears, the rain is composing a symphony that makes your spine shiver.

I close my eyes as I listen to the tunefulness of the sound. Every raindrops, a heartbeat in my heart beats. It was like I have a connection with the rain and air, I began to sway a little and feel it.
"Oh my! Inah you doing it again!" I gasped as Guinevere yell and I open my eyes wide open and I see floating objects around me and I cover my mouth with both hands.

For a second all the levitating things falls down leaving the air vacant and I look at Guinevere face and I can tell she's not feeling well. I'm kinda use to people so don't accept my power and reacts when I did something unnatural and changed their attitude they giving me. Guinevere in the other hand accept my potential and we became friends, but sometimes she is frightened of how I accidentally do some supernatural things.

"I-I didn't mean to do that, are you okay?" I asked and walk towards her.

"Are you nuts? Of course I am, that was amazing Inah! " I was surprised to her response, I didn't know what to say. She doesn't even look disgust of me.

"What's going on here? Guinevere? Someone is waiting for you outside, back to work Ahina!" Said Vesta, she's the owner of this pub and also Guinevere's mother, they owned this pub that I'm working. I head back to what I was doing and to my surprise all of the dishes was done. I didn't recall that I finished the dishes.

"Inah! Are you done?" I turn around to look at Guinevere and her presence was more lively, she was smiling and both of her hands was on herback, looks like she's hidding something behind her.

"I got two tickets for the circus Inah! That means we can go there tomorrow night. " She showed me the two rectangular shaped paper with a Cealum's circus name in it. She widened her smile as if she was holding a prescious thing in her hands.

"Aren't you happy? Finally we can see if your aunt's tales were true and see the ever charming ringmaster." I just sigh and gave her a small smile, going to the circus means going to see my own kinds. I feel I was played by the destiny, my mother warned me before to stay out of that circus if possible.

But there this something in my heart crying and begging to see the world of wonders. Unravel the unseek truth about it. "It's time! We're closing Inah, come help me with the windows."

Across the windows sill I can see a man with a hat in his head, wearing a black clothes watching from afar, I can't tell if he's looking at me but I'm certain that I'm staring at him. Deja Vu? I feel like I meet him before, before... But I can't remember.

As soon as I finish, I was the first one to go out of the pub, Vesta and Guinevere are still inside to keep the place clean before they go home. The autumn breeze hugs me through the night and the dark and cold forest greet me, I raised my left hand and there's a halo appeared and turn into a ball of light that is floating above me.

"Freak! The girl is a freak?" Shouted the old lady and she seems shock of what kind of witchcraft I've done, so I turn to her and smile.

I continue to take step towards the woods but someone grab my wrist and whisper into my ear. "Turn around or you're dead, Miss Dawson." His baritone voice makes my heart pound and I can feel my knees are weak.

How did he know my last name? Did we meet before? This stranger Gave me creeps.

To my surprise, I almost lost my balance and fell into the ground, luckily that didn't happen. He help me to have my balance so I can stand in front of him. He's man who is looking at me at the pub. Is he following me? I wonder what does he want to me.

"So may I have a moment with you Miss Dawson? " He was so tall, his black clothes soothe his black eyes and his long grey hair show that he aged, his presence makes me feel colder, I blink twice before I respond to his question.

"Yes you may." He gave me a piece of paper and when I open it, it was a blank no word was written on it so I turn my gaze into him and gave him a questioning look.

"When the dark sky passes, just whisper 'Duc viam meam' and that will show you, you're fate." He grinned at me.

I looked the blank paper again," Is this a joke Mister? I have enough of this foolish thing" When I turned to look at him again but it's only a empty and no tall man in front of me now, only me, Alone.

"It is wiser to found out than to supposed." I told to myself.

Alone...