Onstage, the jugglers have given way to . . . nothing for the moment.

Hey, it's a lion! The older male X met, no less, and Trowa in a new and less colorful outfit. (It's still very much a circus performer's outfit, though, and thus kind of ridiculous.)

Up top, the clowns artistically wobble their way off the wire. They'll be replaced shortly by another aerial fabric act, this one rather more leisurely and staid than the first. Startling lions is a bad plan.