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Apoings to say.

Apologies for...

Apologies for...

The slight deceleration, but I must express some consternation.

Before we move on, you should show restraint.

For our next stop may make you faint. A tunnel spinning, swirling with light, spiraling down with no ending sight.

Through this corridor, dizzy and long, left is right and right is wrong.

Enter and see your world undone.

The moon in day. Your world undone.

The moon in daylight, the night by sun.

Everything you thought and all that you knew turns on a dot nothing is true. Just like this tunnel, our story will twist around a young woman whose questions persist.

But what will the answers prove to uncover?

Like innocence, ignorance cannot recover.

Conspiracy undoubtedly will engross.

So, gather round and listen close. Oh, Big Joe's Big Top Circus. Below the name was a scratchy drawing, a showman,

toothy grin pulled wide, stretched his hand to the reader,

as though he was inviting them in,

luring them with the promise of candied nuts, exotic animals, and of a place free from the world

and all its boring rules.

I wondered, is that what Sophie saw?

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