Brilliant story thus far, very underappreciated. I finally got back to this after letting it stew in my read later for months, and I read from start to finish in a few hours.

My only complaint is that the chapters could be a little bit longer, even if that takes more time, it'd be better because I'm noticing a lack of explaining things, unless I'm just missing them (example being that I don't remember you specifying what somber looked like before the ritual, but, again, maybe I ended up missing something)

Everything else is fairly spot on.