Running up to the entry to the ritual hall, Hian sees acolytes carrying large round containers of some kind, heading inside. "What are those?" "We're late!" Rohin says, ignoring the question. The woman at the door gives them a severe look. "You're late," she says, and Hian is jolted by the sudden memory of the same thing happening before, when she had been much younger - and when Diran was there. Shaking her head, she nearly misses Rohin's plea. "Oh come on, Sora Agne, the glimmergifts have only just gone in!" "They're late too," Sora Agne says. "Mara Gulun had to take over, Padria Osin's got a visitor." Then she relents. "Oh, come on then. Stand at the back."