User blog comment:WatcherAzazel/Brick Wall on the first Paragraph/@comment-24918243-20140807051022

I think "The Circle" is perfectly acceptable. It invokes the feeling of an "Inner Circle" of people initiated into some rite of passage, which is what I gathered from the first story. It also keeps the nature of the group vague, which I think works too.

The fact that the protagonist of the first story does not automatically rule out the possibility of having a "such-and-such-a-person's account." Just because you didn't name him on the first story, does not mean he must forever remain unnamed. If you do decide to name him, whoever read the first story will draw the parallel and understand you are talking about the protagonist of the first story. If they haven't read the first story, then it does not affect it negatively either.