When we had walked a little bit higher we met an odd lady with a mask and very long fingernails hiding behind a tree. She asked us if she should be afraid of us and we assured her that she should not be. She crept out from behind the tree and explained that there were so many of us and we looked different from her and so she was unsure if she should be scared of us or not. She introduced us to Tree, the tree she had been crouched behind. Then she told us a trick that Tree hat taught her: when you are afraid and your stomach is in knots, remember what you are grateful for. I decided to call her Gratefulness. Gratefulness then asked us to tell her what we were grateful for. When the rest of the group came, she talked more about fear and how Tree helped her to cope with it so I decided to change her name to Fear. Then the Well Dressed Man With a Briefcase came out of nowhere and walked slowly up the path, avoiding eye contact. Fear asked us what we should do and we started following him.
He came to a stop near a river, dropped his umbrella, and opened his briefcase. My first thought was "OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" because he was a well dressed man with a briefcase after all, but then he took out not a gun, but a little doll. He cried over the doll, showed it to us, and then... threw it into the river and died. I was very surprised. I decided to name him Sadness. As I decided that, a lady (whom I named Maiden) (Don't you like the word whom? anyways...) came out of the river with the doll and a vase (or is it an urn? I hope not because urns are where people keep the ashes of dead people) in her hands. She wore a white dress and golden dragon-shaped bracelets that went almost to her shoulders. She started walking and Guide followed. We stood still, then all together started following Guide. Maiden split away from the group at an intersection, then a little ways after that guide told us to stop at a crossroads.
At the crossroads there was a mime who did a performance where he found a rose and smelled it, then tried to reach it and was pricked. Then he found a woman and had a baby. He showed his baby things like dogs and birds. Suddenly the baby was a teenager/adult an the mime looked surprised, then sad. he walked up to his kid, patted him awkwardly, and watched him go. Then he sadly walked away... and found the rose again. He sniffed it and then, cautiously, picked it up. Then he smiled and everybody clapped.
I'm yawning already! we only have two performances left so I'll do the rest tomorrow.
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