Carolina

## Backstory

### Life On the Run

Carolina was born in Dalles, Oregon to Zion and a woman who she never learned the name of. She had two sisters, Montana and Lyric. She has little memory of what happened during these first two years of her life as her father raised her and her sisters most of the time rarely letting her mother get close. She never got an explanation as to why he kept her away from her mom but after a while, she learned to not question it. When she was around three she awoke one night to loud noises filling her house and before she could ever really process what was happening around her, her dad scooped her up from the crib she laid in and rushed out of the house. Without ever looking back he shoved a single briefcase into their old car and quickly rushed her sisters into it as well before leaving their house behind. For several months they drove around the states never really settling down in a house as her father struggled to find a job he could keep. She spent a lot of time simply growing up in their car as they traveled around non-stop. She never had many friends growing up and never quite got to go to school so most of what she learned was her dad homeschooling her though she didn’t mind too much as it was something that helped her father take his mind off the struggle they were having. By the age of five, she was becoming more used to this lifestyle assuming they’d always be living this way but it wasn’t until they settled in a small town called Bar Harbor, Maine that she finally got to experience some change for the better. Her father was offered a job in a moving circus that at the time was showing in that little city. He took the job as he was desperate to make any money he could and not wanting to leave his daughter behind they were both forced to move with the circus now. Though this change ended up not being so bad as in a way these people became their new family as they performed and worked by their side. Carolina mainly just watched the shows whenever they traveled and performed as she was too young to get involved in anything they had at the time. It was almost like the only change that had been made was...who they were traveling with but she never complained about this as she enjoyed being around these people. On her seventh birthday, she finally began to learn about her talent as she hung around more of the performers trying out different things. Carolina found herself being drawn to Lydia, who at the time was the circus’s contortionist. Since her sisters were often busy hanging out with each other or around their father she found herself finding a friend in this woman who taught her a lot of the things she learned growing up and even helped her realize what talent she possessed. She spent years then taking comfort in this lady though like everything else all good things must come to an end. One day the circus stopped in a small town in Utah and she noticed Lydia seemed nervous about this destination. While they were out one day she had slipped off on her own and that was the last time she saw her best friend. She often blamed herself for the girl’s disappearance as she never told anyone that she saw her go somewhere or even try to follow her. She never learned what happened to her but it never stops her from blaming whatever happened on herself. Though this lead to them lacking a contortionist in the show which in the end the ringmaster hired her for the job at the age of twelve. She gladly accepted this position and even got to choose her own stage name in the end.