Coming at this at the far end of this conversation, I'm tempted to suggest that perhaps it would be best to give it a little bit more time to play out. When you get the finale to the Dìqiú Suite up and we all (writers and readers) get to see it as a complete whole, we're liable to lose that "we don't see how it fits" conundrum that several readers have expressed. If as you said in an earlier post, the ending to the Suite brings it all back together, it may not look quite so lost on the wrong back road.