(I'm back. Before you ask, I'm fine. My family needed some help too, but they're fine. No one has the coronavirus.)

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Siwa chuckled at his little speech. "We all appreciate the fine work you do, even if your goods are really more for males. That said, if you ever started making metal jewelry, I'd be happy to trade you for it, if I get my hands on enough things you like. Maybe some human coins. I'm not sure why humans like those things so much; they're useless. Still, they toss little copper coins at me when I dance in their town, so they must be worth something. I think 50 of them can be exchanged for a big loaf of bread." She moved down to his feet and began to massage them, starting with his right foot.

She could have told him that he needed to take a break more often, but there was no point in that. He wouldn't listen and it would probably just slow his output. Siwa used both hands to knead his right foot, starting with the arch, the ball of the foot and along the big-toe side of his foot. Once the muscles were warmed up, she used both hands to wring Koglan's foot. Grasping around the ball of the foot she moved her hands in opposite directions. She started at the toes, moved up the arch to the heel, then wringed back down to the toes.

After that, she made a fist with his hand. She took her fist and used her knuckles to rub deeply on the sole of the foot between the ball and heel. Two minutes later, she cupped one hand under the heel, behind the ankle, to brace his foot and leg. Siwa grasped the ball of the foot with the other hand and turned the foot slowly at the ankle five times in each direction. Following that, she used her fingers to press deeply and draw lines from his heel up to the toes. She did this 5 times - along the bones leading to each toe.

When that part Was done, Siwa used her thumbs to press and move in small circles along the sole of the foot, covering the entire surface of the sole, taking care to apply more pressure to the ball and heel of the foot. Then, grasping the foot beneath the arch, and with her other hand, beginning with the big toe, she held the toe with her thumb on top and index finger beneath. Starting at the base of the toe, she slowly and firmly pulled the digit, sliding her fingers to the top and back to the base. She did this with all of the toes on his foot. Then, she made a fist with her hand, and gently pressed it into the arch of Koglan's foot, held it for a second, and released. She repeated this a number of times, until he was satisfied with how it felt.

Finally, she took the heel of her left hand and rubbed the arch of his foot with the heel of her hand, covering the whole area of the arch - even up to the side of his foot.

"That's one foot done. The technique is the same on the left foot. How's that feel, Kog?"