Most of them have secondary skills or side hustles to fall back on. Jojo and Boots are paramedics. Bitsy got hired on with a bakery; this might be good for her, she's always loved baking, and her cakes are amazing. Punchy and Lulabelle are teaching physical comedy at one of the theaters."
"And you?"
"I'm a clown. I can't do any of that. Not really. I've learned a lot of neat skills and maybe some of them could be a job...but if I stop putting on the paint and making people laugh, I'd just wither away and die." I slumped a bit. "I know that sounds stupid..."
He shook his head. "No, it doesn't. I never thought about it before, but clowns are artists, aren't they?"
A kind of warmth crept over me. He got it. I'd never really met anyone outside my world who did. "Some of us, maybe most of u
