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the situation is, of course, extremely dangerous. They pulled themselves together and commanded the children to stay back. Some of the adults agreed to stay and watch over the children, while two other fathers decided to keep going deeper into the circus. After a couple of minutes, while inspecting the rusty ticket booth, they heard a sinister laughter piercing their ears. They turned around in a heartbeat and immediately rushed into the huge, heavily damaged building, where they thought they heard the noise coming from. The men burst out the wooden door and what they saw, made their blood run cold. There was an enormous stage with a clown standing on it. He had bright red hair, although the tips were dark as if scorched. The clown turned around in a quick motion and his wide, bloody eyes met the parents.
“And what do we have here?! Unexpected show participants?” the clown asked angrily.
He was getting more and more frustrated.
“Have you bought the tickets?!”
One of the men glanced through the stage and soon