At Circus of The Wonder, only young women--just the girl acrobats, of a certain age--were trained to be skywalkers (The Wonders themselves). This was also on purpose, and entirely Ignacio's doing. The lion tamer liked young women; he thought that prepubescent girls were the best skywalkers. Ignacio believed that if you were in the audience, you wanted to be worried about the girls falling, not thinking about them sexually; once women were old enough for you to have sexual thoughts about them--well, at least in the lion tamer's opinion, you weren't so worried about them dying if you could imagine having sex with them. Naturally,