Each group takes it in turns to move around the space. The Pied Piper plays his pipe. The children skip on their own around the space, as though they are the Pied Piper playing his pipe.

But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone ...