Ajo Kawir’s erection returns the morning after Iteung tells him she has killed two police officers. The change reverses his long-standing impotence, but it does not resolve the crisis around him: Iteung is gone, and he fears she will be imprisoned again. The scene gives the Bird a voice of its own, turning a physical awakening into an exchange about patience, absence, and waiting.

The Confession and Its Consequence

Before the awakening, Iteung tells Ajo Kawir that she killed the two police officers, describing them as his old friends. His immediate response is anger. The confession makes her absence the defining circumstance of the following morning: when he wakes and finds the space beside him empty, he expects her to be there, then recognizes that she is not.

Ajo Kawir’s reaction connects the confession to the unresolved danger of imprisonment. He says that his wife is gone and that he does not know how long she will be in jail this time. The scene confirms no sentence or duration; its force lies in the uncertainty he voices as he confronts the possibility of another separation.

The Bird Wakes

After waking, Ajo Kawir notices that he has an erection. Wonderstruck, he sits up, looks, and touches the Bird, which grows harder. His astonishment marks the event as more than a routine bodily change: for a man whose impotence has shaped his life, the return of the erection is an unexpected reversal.

He addresses the Bird directly and celebrates its return. The Bird answers that it is happy to be awake and feel alive. Its personified voice makes the change into a small dialogue rather than a silent discovery: Ajo Kawir welcomes it, and the Bird responds as if waking were an experience it had shared with him.

Joy Against Separation

The scene turns sharply from celebration back to loss. Ajo Kawir calls the Bird a fool and says he has nothing to give it because his wife is gone and may be in jail for killing the police officers. His joy at the erection is therefore not a simple resolution of his earlier condition; it arrives while the relationship and future he cares about are uncertain.

The Bird answers that it will wait patiently for Iteung, just as it waited for Ajo Kawir to wake it over all those years. It then asks whether it may return to sleep while waiting. That final exchange holds recovery and suspension together: the Bird has awakened, but the reunion and freedom that might give the awakening a fuller consequence remain beyond the scene.