chapter 9

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Emily has wanted to be a lion tamer since childhood, and has kept this a secret from everyone. This dream wasn't dispelled by aging, rather it has intensified. Unfortunately she has fallen in with the animal rights crowd, and while she holds those values dearly, ultimately she is willing to turn hypocrite in order to tame lions. Recently while flipping threw the classifieds she found an add for a circus that is looking for someone "brave enough to tame the earth's wildest beasts". She can go through with her dream, but it will alienate all her friends, and her fiance, who would certainly leave her if she decided to join ranks with the "enemy". Emily is a bit of a wild child, decidedly liberal, an expert on the effects of just about any drug one could think of, and a few that no one except some of her chemist buddies from college could.

Justin is Emily's fiance. He loves animals, but has become so involved in fighting people to protect animals that a lot of that love has gone a bit stagnant. He disaproves of Emily's wild nature, and is glad that she (as far as he knows) is off all drugs. He once defecated in a van meant for circus personal, and obviously has no interest in taming lions, and would certainly break off the engagement with Emily were he to find out she is interested in taming lions, and might crucify her if he found at that she was actually going to tame lions. He covered his forearm with homemade tatoos when he was seventeen, but is now brutally ashamed of them and always, regardless of the heat, wears long sleeve shirts.