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Sheena and her troupe of enigmatic carnival performers entertain guests near and far with mischievous tricks and unbelievable sights; for a price, of course. When they arrived at the town of Beddalam they expected a crowd; instead all they found was a silent, weary looking clown and an abandoned hamlet. Never having been one to miss an opportunity for profit, Sheena offered the clown a home traveling with her troupe. She could tell there was something special about this garis...hly painted joker, and she assumed spectators would pay to see his strange visage. Without any change in his expression, the clown silently climbed aboard their caravan. Karina the Astonishing slapped his back in jest, and the clown stared back at her with hollow, empty eyes. "Get a load of this guy! Some sense of humor for a clown. Hey, I thought this was a circus, not a freak show!" Karina chortled and elbowed Sheena. The fortune-telling leader of the carnival smirked and said, "Audience won't know the difference, so long as he plays along with his stage name. He won't tell me his real one, so we're calling him Slap-Happy." The performers laughed at the irony, while Slap-Happy continued to stare out the caravan window, watching Beddalam disappear behind them. The caravan reached the next town as dusk fell, and the performers set up the big top tent and began taking tickets from the audience. Slap-Happy the Clown started howling with laughter and jerking violently back and forth. "Save it for the show!" shouted Magnus, "but it's a good warm up routine." Slap-Happy was the first act; but when the clown opened his mouth with a sickening cracking sound to reveal rows of hideous teeth, all in the big top feared that this would be the final act of them all. Sheena, Karina and Magnus readied themselves for battle - and the audience settled in to watch in disbelief.
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