Lornell positively wiggles.  "Maybe if I get really really rich I can pay people to breed them smarter if they aren't people already - wings - "

"- well you wouldn't be able to - would you be able to just turn into a crow?"

"Not as effectively as I would if my entire society were here but eventually I think!  Or just take the wings - I'm not sure I'd be able to get them big enough to fly by myself but it's still very cool and I'd be awfully motivated - "

"How would you get them bigger than the crow you took them from? That doesn't seem like copying?"

"Maybe if it was a baby crow I could get them to grow . . . humans aren't people until older but maybe - something to do with eggs??  I'm operating on wishful thinking a bit."

"Huh. Well, probably one of the neighbors has a crow, I've seen a couple going in and out of windows."

"I would love to meet your neighbors' crows.  - Hm, I know sometimes copying arms or something scales them to you instead of exactly the same as the other person - I wonder if I'd have to replace my arms with them or if I could get six limbs.  And if I could then turn those to arms, just have an extra set . . ."

"It'd be really cool, everyone'll be jealous of you anyway but that'd really be the sauce on the steak there if also you could have wings."

Bounce bounce bounce bounce.  "I bet a lot of people would want to see flying acrobatics; I'd have to learn everything myself but I can probably manage that.  - Is there a reason I should in fact be aiming for a larger show all by myself instead of just joining an existing one in a smaller chunk like you said is normal?  Obviously it would make less money but maybe it would be worth it anyways."

"It might make sense for you to join a normal circus! I don't know much about how they work on the back end."

"Me either!  Mostly I would like to be able to stop circusing quickly if I find something that's very obviously much more useful.  I don't know whether that would be harder with a group, because I was making a commitment to other people, or by myself because there wouldn't be anything left of it without me."

"Yeah, I don't know either. You can borrow my old laptop if you want? And look for... circus... websites?"

"That would be very kind of you!"

With borrowed expertise on how laptops work Chirun's laptop is straightforward to use! There are many different circuses, differing in emphasis (animal acts, gymnastic showoffery, ridiculous stunts, stage magic, comedy, puppetry, musical performances timed to match the acrobats) and whether they are stationary attractions in big hub cities or traveling ones that use event stadia or pitch tents.

How's the state of the art on gymnastic showoffery and ridiculous stunts?  Is Lornell better than everyone else here already or is there anyone objectively more skillful?  Any cool technologies specifically pertaining to those?

Lornell is better than everyone else here at pure athleticism, though some people have Lorn beat on individual subskills they've obsessively worked on, but they're also doing stuff with costumes and exact timing and interpretive dance. They have aerial silks and trapezes and human cannons and stuff. They're generally working over nets when they fling themselves through the air.

There are Citreliac aerial silks and trapezes but wow!  Human cannons!  Lorn'll try and stay away from the obsessively practiced subskills because that seems really unfair to the people who had to obsessively practice them.  The costumes here are really really cool!  It would be nice if either Citreliac designers could access these sorts of fabrics or if Green designers could see enough of Citreliac fashion to have a go at it, but that's really the very least of the reasons Lornell wants the entire planets to be in contact with each other instead of just them so it's best not to dwell on that.

Are there any of the stationary kind nearby?  (And how big is this town in comparison to others, for that matter?)

This city has about six hundred thousand people in it. Big enough to be on a few cross-country train routes but not big enough for a stationary circus. There's a city of one and a half million four train stops north and that has one.

Wow okay that's almost three times bigger than the Creta's capital and that's the biggest city on Citrelia Lorn is pretty sure.  They suppose they came in from the wilderness and probably aren't seeing the densest parts.  Or maybe Greens just don't live as densely in general since they wouldn't be as advantaged by it.

How long does the train ride to the bigger city take?

Just an hour.

That's not bad!  Maybe Lornell should visit the relevant circus, except for how according to Chirun's computer knowledge they should instead and/or first contact it digitally.  Is 'lornell' already taken as the identifying part of anyone else's email address?

Yes. There are billions of people on Green.

That's a lot!!  How about 'lornellcretari'?

That one is wide open and all theirs.

Great!  Now that that's sorted is there anything on the circus's site about whether they're looking for new members?