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To co effect of all this drealass of my phone, eyes closed for a moment, and whispered to myself, "I am a ti in ti, perhaps, was the fact that time travel hadn’t broken my brain; that by so crazy person ranting on a street corner The huined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and see impossibilities Lucky for me

"Olive!" Bronwyn shouted "Get away from there!" I looked up to see her yank Olive away from a cloho had bent down to talk to her "I’ve told you tie enough that keeping it together could be a challenge, especially in a place like this, full of distractions tailor-made to fascinate children Bronwyn acted as den et a closer look at a stall of brightly colored pinwheels or stea boiled candy Olive was the et that ere in serious danger It was only possible to keep so many kids in line because they were not actually kids--because there was so their childish impulses With actual children, I’m sure it would’ve been hopeless

For a while andered ai for anyone who resembled Miss Wren, or anywhere it see here seeeness, was perfect cae for peculiars And yet, even here, people noticed us, their heads turning subtly as we passed I started to get paranoid How hts themselves? I was especially wary of the clown, the one Bronwyn had pulled Olive away fro up Weat theus from a tented photo booth, hisbizarrely with a backdrop painting of bucolic countryside He see out in the open like this," I said to Emma

"We can’t just circle around forever People are noticing us Clowns"

"Clowns?" she said "Anyway, I agree with you--but it’s difficult to knohere to start in all this madness"

"We should start at what is always thebetween us "The sideshow" He pointed at a tall, gaudy facade at the edge of the square "Sideshows and peculiars go together like hts"

"Usually they do," said Ehts know that as well I’ in such obvious places"

"Have you got a better idea?" said Enoch

We didn’t, and so we shifted direction toward the sideshow I looked back for the leering clown, but he had melted into the crowd

At the sideshow, a scruffy carnival barker was shouting through aerrors of nature allowed on view by law" for a trivial fee It was called the Congress of Human Oddities

"Sounds like dinner parties I’ve attended," said Horace