The website is aimed almost entirely at prospective attendees but there is a Jobs link that divides into applications (for support work like selling concessions) and auditions (for adding an act).

Does it mention or imply anything about how much of a commitment auditioners are making if they're accepted?  A minimum number of shows or a timeframe, anything like that?

Right now they don't have any open slots at all but will Keep Your Videos On File.

Well, that doesn't seem like they're operating on a scale of time that's very useful to Lornell.  Any travelling ones swinging through nearby?

There will be one in town in two months! You can still get tickets!

Well.  "Chirun?  I don't think it makes sense for me to join someone else's circus right now instead of just finding something useful right away or starting my own act.  Maybe with singing and stuff too."

"Well, if you don't book a venue you're just busking, which can be fun but makes incredibly little money because people can free-ride."

"I would probably want to book a venue, then, unless it's too expensive to be worth it!  If it's only a little expensive I could probably sell hair or something, it must be worth a lot more than at home . . . unless that means you just don't use it for anything here?"

"What do you use it for at home?"

"Fabrics and rope, that sort of thing."

"Oh. Yeah we don't use human hair for that at all. I think it might be used for... wigs?"

"- Oh, I can see why those would be a thing that exists here.  Well, maybe I can sell hair for wigs."  Does the internet think this is financially feasible?

You can sell a healthy long hunk of untreated hair for about a week's worth of rent especially if it is in a rarer color.

Lornell shows Chirun the page of requirements.  "Do you know anyone with hair like this who might be willing to go halves with me on selling it?"

"...I think the reason it's so expensive is that people with hair like that want to keep theirs... oh, I guess they wouldn't cut theirs?"

"No, I could just keep copying it and chopping it."

"Then yeah, my mom's got long hair."

"Great!  When is she normally free?"

"If I want to see her I usually, like, schedule something, but we can drop by her place whenever and wait for her to show up if you want."

"If that's not rude!"

"Would be without me but not with me!"

"Then that sounds like a good idea!  Maybe we could visit your neighbor with the crows or the one who's fifteen first if you think they might be free and your mom might not be?"

"Sure, we can stop at those apartments on the way out."

Knock knock, crow neighbor. "G'way," squawks a crow.

Not a person.  Lornell sighs.  "Okay, thanks for your time."

"G'way! G'way!" says the crow. "Nobody home."

The fifteen-year-old is home and indeed answers the door herself.