The world Julien is from has certain resources that different things from different dimensions or realities - he's really not sure which - have been vying for for a very long time. One of them likes acting through human proxies who serve it with great enthusiasm and fervor. By all accounts it's possessive and wants to take them back to wherever it's from if it succeeds.

He hadn't connected that with the Ringmaster taking people into her Carnival, but he can kind of see it here. That's... well. He feels numbed and cold by all this. Everything comes down to being used and yanked about, though, doesn't it?

A handful of eyes form just to look specifically at Reira. She'd been homeless? By the standard of not living in housing, anyway? That explains some things, poor kid.