[And there it was, just for a second, a slight twitch of Jamil's lips as he listens to Kalim...and then it was tempered to a thoughtful frown. And then it became an actual frown. Not angry, just thoughtful, because if this was a replication of a tomb (plausible...likely, even, as Kalim was right: a lot of the ruins were tombs and this looked like much the same as those tombs) from the Scalding Sands, how far did the replication go?

Or to put it another way, if this was a fake tomb, were there...fake bones buried deep within this fake tomb?]

...

[Yeah, okay, he's not going to think about that.]

Me showing you would require me knowing how to do the dance in the first place. I only watched a video a few times.

[He says, while putting away his phone and looking around for- ah. Well. Sticks aren't exactly the most glamorous replacement for fans on fire, but they're in the middle of nowhere and don't have much besides their magical pens, and their dorm uniforms, and Carpet to work with.]

The idea is that we'd be dancing while holding something on fire. I've seen dancers with fans, knives, or a version in which the dancers hold a-

[Fuck, he's blanking on the name of the...things. Fire thing on fire attached to chain that person holds things.]

Lanterns on fire, I suppose, connected by chains - the dancer holds the chain and spins the lantern around them. [Not knowing the name of it is going to bother him, because he's supposed to provide excellence and yet here he is, badly describing the thing.] You know the thing I'm talking about, correct? Well, it probably doesn't matter if you don't, as fans would be the easiest for us to manage given the circumstances.