SORA returns a kick to his shoe but misses hitting BASH's knee. BASH grabs his knee howling in pain. SORA gets up to kneel by BASH to see how he is hurt. They roll into the darkness behind the tub of pine trees. Fighting sounds can fade to sounds of a sexual encounter.
Lights dim to almost a blackout.
He sits alone in a small beam of light that filters through the pines. SORA lies asleep with his head close to the left corner of the screen. My heart lept with joy when I finally saw the celebrated pine of Takekuma. It is exactly as described by ancient writers. It must have been replanted, cut, planted again and now things are as they were a thousand years ago.