closed starter for @princexinju.
location & time: the constructed amphitheater, near a fire-eater artist, beginning of the festivities.
charlotte was used to grandeur. she would be lying if she said that she never experienced such festivities --- before the crisis broke up in france, she remembered of a time when her parents would host jousts and feasts. in a time before charlotte was born and would read about it in books, the french court was way more extravagant. but she won’t compare the italian festivities to some she only read about --- she was supposed to enjoy the present, and such time was being more joyous than she thought. the fears and concerns about her unborn baby still lingered her head, but she still laughed with her ladies when they stepped out of empress yekaterina’s box to explore the common ground.
there were many artists with performances she never saw in life. charlotte was mesmerized by them --- she had always been an enthusiastic of the traditional forms of art, like painting and poetry, but it was the first time since she married that charlotte was in contact with the other forms. her gaze landed at every performer with awe, but the fire-eaters caught her attention the most. maybe it was the dangerousness of it, or the fact that it was something charlotte didn’t imagine how it could happen.
she wanted to know the tricks behind it, behind every other performer. it must have, doesn’t it ? no one could eat fire without being magic, and charlotte was aware such thing didn’t exist. but the crowd was too much, and while she knew her ladies would accompany her in such adventure, they were missing the comfort of the imperial box. charlotte couldn’t blame them, and just sighed in frustration. she hated that kind of thing --- that charlotte couldn’t know the truth behind. “ oh, i would do everything to learn the tricks about this performance. not do it myself, but only to stop feeding my curiosity. ” charlotte spoke in the direction of a man that she thought was from the far east, a friendly smile on her face.