It was Indonesian Culture night at the resort’s restaurant last night. The overwhelming buffet of local dishes was followed by the hypnotic and thoroughly exotic sounds of a small gamelan ensemble who accompanied these dancers.

The Balinese dancers themselves were strikingly beautiful, their movements like watching robots made out of one of those crazy metamaterials you sometimes see on YouTube science demos.

However, in this photo with the audience girl I see something I didn’t see in the moment… That poor young volunteer is obviously going to be roasted and eaten soon, if not by the dancer herself then by whatever old god is honored by her dance. It’s sad, in a way, who knows what her future might have been? But now the god’s hunger is slaked and the rest of us can go back to our lives in safety.