The feast lasted until late into the night...
Though everyone drank with gusto, the highland barley wine really wasn't that strong...
After the knights had finished their "Budweiser" too, Alvin brought out a huge keg of beer from his supplies so everyone could drink their fill...
Only when everyone had gathered around the stove and started dancing did Alvin decide they'd probably had enough.
The children were having the time of their lives. These warmhearted Tibetans seemed to like the little foreigners...
Especially when they hummed nonsense songs and danced along with them without a trace of reserve...
Unexpectedly, the most popular one was Nick!
That outgoing kid used stilted Chinese that sounded like gibberish, along with enthusiastic gesturing, and somehow struck up lively conversations with several young knights...
He even egged them on to bring out their falcons, and got to play "The Condor Hero" for a while...
As Alvin watched Nick, under the astonished gazes of the young men, use his Nanotech Prosthesis to form "perches" on his shoulders and wrists, along with "gauntlets," then let four falcons perch on his shoulders and hands...
The kid excitedly called Jessica over to take his picture, shouting and posing for the camera...
Unfortunately, no matter how Alvin looked at him, he seemed more like a bird seller than "The Condor Hero"...
Still, Nick's antics didn't seem to bother anyone, so Alvin let him carry on.
The night sky over the Snow Region was breathtaking...
Alvin sat beside a bonfire and fished a "beggar's chicken" out of it...
As it turned out, people needed less food when they were drinking. Not a single one of the dozen or so chickens they'd roasted had been eaten...
Those hearty men were enjoying their drinks so much that they'd rather eat the half-charred steak