[He holds the hair she gives to him in the same delicate way he had kept hold of his own and approaches the light with his pupils narrowed almost to nothing and his forearm held up to cast a shadow over his eyes.

Ordinarily he would not voluntarily approach such bright lights when doing so is not very comfortable.]

I expect that something dramatic will happen. That does seem to be the way of things with these rituals. [As for if it will be a dangerous something... that's a matter for not so long in the future.]

But one would hope that if anything life-threatening were on the cards, we might have been warned beforehand. What do you think?