"Show-off!" Xarcondra laughed at her own father.

He was delighted to frame a sequence of poses that highlighted his large musculature and his powerful keratin spikes, always touring the presentation space with his inflated ego.

"We need to show these lazy people how to do it! Let's do what we rehearsed!" more and more enthusiastic, Ruzorh called his daughter to the center of the circle. "We need Nukaya! Where is she?" he looked around before shouting for her. "Nukaya! Nukaya!"

"Calm down, dad!" Xarcondra reached Ruzorh at the center of the presentations, smiling at him while pointing to his rear. "She's right behind you!"

Looking back in surprise, the exhibitionist wore a long smile on his face when he found his daughter's best friend.

"Did you call me, Master Ruzorh?" smiling like everyone, Nukaya danced right there, as if she already imagined that she would be called to the choreography that they had rehearsed together. "I see you're super happy today!"

She preferred to wear a lilac garment firmly attached to her small body, which matched perfectly with the dark-colored skin.

"And when am I not?!" Ruzorh pulled Xarcondra by the arm, and it was not long before he also pulled Nukaya for a synchronized dance. "Follow Master Ruzorh! Splendid sun dancer! Empty Land's true terror!"

"How splendid your father is, Xarcondra! Look!" Nukaya laughed as she joked, always following the fast pace of her dance teacher. "I can barely see his movements!"

"You suck!" Xarcondra also had fun. "You keep winding him up!"

"She's just admiring my gigantic artistic gifts! There is no way not to see!" Ruzorh spun the two children, one in each hand. "Get ready! It's showtime, my students!"

It was clear that the attention converged even more towards Xarcondra, Nukaya, and, mainly, to Ruzorh, who exclaimed so much to the audience with his deep and charged voice. There, many people clapped their hands without stopping dancing while the choreography of the three reconfigured into something surprising.

Ruzorh pulled Nukaya over his shoulder, allowing her to climb the professor's big spikes without getting hurt in the process. Xarcondra, on the other hand, freed herself from her father's hand, turning around him with a more complex and elegant step.

Reaching the upper spikes with her feet on Ruzorh's modified trapeze, Nukaya could make room for her most peculiar and natural bodily talent: contortionism. She twisted her anatomy, created new forms, and stretched her limbs in very extravagant and majestic designs, capturing much of the eyes of those who were more distant.

Ruzorh did not stand still: he jumped, spun, and danced along with her outgoing daughter, which only elevated the notion of the effort that Nukaya exerted on the body of her circus master. It was an amazing, wonderful, and fun scene to watch, where the three laughed and gave themselves to what they loved most in that warm desert city. The circus brought out the best in that community.

"Alright! Move these legs! Move those arms! Set this world on fire!" Ruzorh shouted to his students, increasing the euphoria for the final phase of the act in practice. "It's time! Are you ready, girls?!"

"You bet!" both exclaimed the same sentence in exaltation.

There, in the last synchrony of dancing acts of Ruzorh and Xarcondra, Nukaya jumped off her master's back, spinning countless times over the air before landing on the ground with a splitter beside her dance partners, ending the number in a combined pose of three elements.

The crowd went wild, not to mention those who belonged to the circle of artists. The sound of applauses filled through the air and flooded the sound stage with their encouragement, which only lifted the spirits of those three who were panting for the enormous artistic disposition they had performed.

Ruzorh lifted Nukaya off the floor at the same time as he pulled his daughter in a joint embrace, taking extreme care not to hurt them with the thick spikes still attached to his body.

"You girls make me very proud! You fill me with joy!" Ruzorh told them, holding them gently in his arms.

"The credit is all yours, dad!" Xarcondra said emotionally with the situation, barely managing to hold a tear that ran from her face.

"Yes! We wouldn't be here without you to teach us!" Nukaya spoke more calmly, being grateful to have reached a path in her life full of obstacles.

The sun enchanted that scenery with its great presence, being a witness of a beautiful spectacle that the verozean people conceived about those arid lands. A light passing breath began to caress those agitated and heated bodies, announcing the arrival of a new era of surprises and feelings that the unknown would bring to the sweet souls of a crossed destination.