[One of the benefits of slower movement is that he can more easily keep his eyes on the things around him. Throughout, he is always glancing back to Ala. The enka performance ends behind them, and different musicians come on to play something faster. More modern. Dancing around a fire no longer seems quite so thematically appropriate.]
[People are still doing it, though.]
[When the bird comes over, he quietly steps out of the circle and reaches up to stroke the bird that isn't there, and if she lets him, pick her up in his hands.]
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[People are still doing it, though.]
[When the bird comes over, he quietly steps out of the circle and reaches up to stroke the bird that isn't there, and if she lets him, pick her up in his hands.]