"I don't know," Ilde says, glancing behind her fleetingly, tucking the cigarette pack in the waistband of her pants, "I always thought it had a certain charm."

--but she doesn't like crowds so much, sometimes, and she'd miscalculated how much fun it'd be to watch vs how anxious the enclosed space and angry crowd would end up making her. (She's never been the best at gauging her own limits; sometimes it's worse than others.)