A week had passed since the massacre, and my daughter was now recuperating at home and learning to use crutches.

I discovered from the news that my daughter’s attackers were Jonathan and Reece Fairchild, so they were probably seeking to avenge their daughter Eliza. They had been on the run before, and Jonathan was on the run again, this time with the boy that they had rescued, Martin Spencer, in tow.

I also learned that while the attack on the circus tent was going on, more rebels had used the distraction to free other convicts from the funfair, including Lena Kovács.

According to the news report, Agnes Morton and Ian Hunkins had garrotted a soldier guarding a tent and rescued three convicts. Then they sneaked into another attraction and rescued three more, knocking out an employee during their escape.

Only Agnes, Ian and Lena had so far been captured; a veterinarian who they had approached to help them tend to Lena’s wounds had turned them in.

The funfair was of course closed, out of respect for the dead and wounded, so I was quite surprised to receive a phone call from the ringmaster asking after my daughter, and wondering if she was well enough to return to the funfair the following Saturday. I told him I would ask her and call him back.